Aaron Anderson, Black Sailor Medal of Honor Recipient-- Part 1: Member of the Potomac Flotilla

From the February 8, 2018, Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance Star "Upcoming Stratford Hall program to detail heroics of medal-winning African-American sailor" by Bob Hedelt.

Stratford Hall, Va., is where Robert E. Lee was born.

Aaron Anderson received a Medal of Honor for his actions at Mattox Creek, Virginia, in 1865.

In March 1865, the ships of the Union Potomac Flotilla sailed up Westmoreland County's Mattox Creek.  About 70 soldiers landed and a small boat with a howitzer manned by Union sailors  rowed up another fork of the creek where they found three schooners, apparently abandoned.

--Old B-R'er