U.S. Civil War - U.S. Navy

Bartholomew Diggins

• Rank: Ordinary Seaman
• Conflict/Era: U.S. Civil War
• Unit/Command:
  U.S.S. Hartford
• Military Service Branch: U.S. Navy
• Medal of Honor Action Date: August 5, 1864
• Medal of Honor Action Place: Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

On board the flagship U.S.S. Hartford, during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Diggins as loader of a gun remained steadfast at his post throughout the furious two-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.