During the Battle of Mobile, the USS Oneida was one of the hardest-hit Union ships. One shot inflicted a severe loss of the ship and wounded Mullany in several places. One of those wounds resulted in the amputation of his left arm.
From April to September 1863, Mullany had commanded a division of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and during the course of the war, he captured eleven blockade runners of a great aggregate value, and, in addition, cut out, with boats, two schooners laden with cotton in the harbor of Galveston, Texas..
From May 1865 to May 1868, he was inspector in charge of ordnance in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Commissioned captain in 1866, and was one of the board of visitors to the U.S. Navy Academy at Annapolis in 1868. Then, from December 1868 to November 1871, he commanded he USS Richmond on the European Station
--Old B-Runner
No comments:
Post a Comment