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Richmond Hobson Medal of Honor Hero Remembered
The piece recalls Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama who led the Merrimac mission at Santiago in 1898 earning a medal of honor. It traces his birth August 17 1870 at Greensboro Alabama and his naval career from Annapolis to duties as a naval constructor and captain. It details the perilous 1898 harbor assault the prisoners exchange and his later fame and decline in public memory as he campaigned for naval expansion.
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Elmo Scott Watson - Hevother
Congress
Col. Lindbergh
Boston
Thermopylae
Balaklava
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Alabama
Hobson
Greensboro
Ala
Southern University
Navy
New Orleans
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Dewey
Manila Bay
Philippines
Cervera
Cape Verde Islands
Cuban
United States Navy
Schley
Santiago
Sampson
New York
John R. Spears
Sterling
Bantiago
San Juan de Porto Rico
Daniel Montague
George Charette
J. & Murphy
Iowa
John P. Phillips
Oscar Deignan
Francis Kelly
Merrimac
Coxs Wain Rudolphy Clausen
Joseph W. Powell
Powell
Vizcaya
Mano
Admiral Cérvera
Morro Castle
el Morro
Admiral Sampson
Kelly
Murphy
America
Secretary of the Navy
Washington
Lindbergh
Santiago Harbor
Long Beach
St. Louis
China
Manila