Still RoadTrippin' Through History. I started with where Alban Stimers was buried, which is in the Cypress Hills Cemetery. There are three U.S. Navy sailors from the war who won a Medal of Honor buried there. This is one of them.
From Find-A-Grave.
JAMES HAINES HORTON
BIRTH: 1 July 1840, England
DEATH: 15 April 1894 (aged 53)
BURIAL: Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
His true name was Joseph Horton.
While serving in the Union Navy, he was awarded the Medal of Honor when his ship was off Port Royal, South Carolina.
His citation reads: "Served as gunner's mate on board the USS Montauk, 21 September 1864. During the night of 21 September 1864, when fire was discovered in the magazine lightroom of the vessel, causing a panic and demoralizing the crew, Horton rushed into the cabin, obtained magazine keys, sprang into the lightroom and began passing out combustables, including a box of signals in which the fire originated."
This ship did not particiate in the attacks on Fort Fisher, but did enter the Cape Fear River after the fort's fall and participated in the Wilmington Campaign.
--Old B-Runner
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