Hendrick Sharp [SEP] conflict
Hendrick Sharp
Hendrick Sharp (1815 – July 1892) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Military service.
Born in 1815 in Spain, Sharp immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served in the Civil War as a seaman and gun captain on the . During the Battle of Mobile Bay on August
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, Sharp fought his gun with skill and courage throughout a furious 2-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram "Tennessee" and in the damaging and destruction of the batteries at Fort Morgan.
Death and burial.
Medal of Honor recipient Hendrick Sharp died in late July 1892 aboard the receiving ship