Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He entered the US Navy at Kentucky and served as a Quarter Gunner. His citation reads "On board the USS Plymouth, Hamburg Harbor, 3 July 1871. Jumping overboard at the imminent risk of his life, Holt, with a comrade, rescued from drowning one of a party who was thrown from a shore boat into a four-knot running tide while the boat was coming alongside the ship".
Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He entered the US Navy at Kentucky and served as a Quarter Gunner. His citation reads "On board the USS Plymouth, Hamburg Harbor, 3 July 1871. Jumping overboard at the imminent risk of his life, Holt, with a comrade, rescued from drowning one of a party who was thrown from a shore boat into a four-knot running tide while the boat was coming alongside the ship".
Bio by: Don Morfe
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