Edward Ringold

Edward Ringold

Infobox Military Person
name=Edward Ringold
born= 1827
died=
placeofbirth= Baltimore, Maryland
placeofdeath= Unknown


caption=Coxswain Edward Ringold
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|USAUnited States of America
branch=nowrap|
serviceyears=
rank=Coxswain
commands=
unit=USS "Wabash"
battles=American Civil War
*Pocataligo, South Carolina
awards=
laterwork=

Edward Ringold (born 1827, date of death unknown) was a United States Navy coxswain and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.

Biography

On 22 October 1862, in action at Pocataligo, South Carolina, at 10:00AM troops began disembarking from their transporters, with three 12 pound boat howitzers and gun crews from the "USS Wabash", Under the command of Lieutenant Lloyd Phoenix. Traveling with General John Milton Brannan’s forces through swamps, thickets, and past burned bridges all of which delayed the movement of the union forces. After landing the naval crews dragged the howitzers five miles inland and immediately met the enemy. Opening up a rapid fire, the naval gun crews advanced with the army forces until they fired away most of their ammunition. At this point Coxswain "Edward Ringold" of the "USS Wabash" ran back two miles filled his shirt with fixed ammunition, slung it over his back and ran back to the front under heavy fire, arriving in time to check the enemy’s advance. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=KclnFqH0prQC&pg=RA1-PA490&dq=%22Ringold,+Edward%22&sig=8axEkK7o4pz2nxX88heRpQ2yevw#PPA124,M1|Success is all that was expected] From Robert M. Browning Jr.]

The date and place of death of "Edward Ringold" are unknown. [findagrave|13025760 Retrieved on 2007-11-08]

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and Organization::Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1827, Baltimore, Md. Accredited To: Maryland. G.O. No.: 17, 10 July 1863.

Citation::Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Wabash in the engagement at Pocataligo, 22 October 1862. Soliciting permission to accompany the howitzer corps, and performing his duty with such gallantry and presence of mind as to attract the attention of all around him, Ringold, knowing there was a scarcity of ammunition, went through the whole line of fire with his shirt slung over his shoulder filled with fixed ammunition which he had brought from 2 miles to the rear of the lines.cite web
publisher = AmericanCivilWar.com
title = "Civil War Medal of Honor Citations" (S-Z): Ringold, Edward
date =
url = http://americancivilwar.com/medal_of_honor7.html
accessdate = 2007-11-09] cite web
publisher = army.mil
title = "Medal of Honor website” (M-Z): Ringold, Edward
date =
url = http://www.army.mil/cmh/html/moh/civwarmz.html
accessdate = 2007-11-09]

Notes

ee also

*List of Medal of Honor recipients
*
*List of U.S. military decorations

References

*findagrave|13025760 Retrieved on 2007-11-13

Persondata
NAME= Ringold, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • USS Wabash (1855) — was a steam screw frigate of the United States Navy that served during the American Civil War. She was based on the same plans as Colorado . Post war she continued to serve her country in European operations and eventually served as a barracks… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ace double novels — Ace Books began publishing genre fiction starting in 1952. Initially these were mostly in the attractive dos à dosfact|date=July 2008 | dos à dos or tête bêche? format, but they also published a few single volumes, in the early years, and that… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ace titles in numeric series — In January 1969, Ace Books switched from a letter series code for its books to a numeric series. The number does not indicate sequence of publication, unlike the number in the letter series codes; instead it identifies the alphabetic position of… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ace western double titles — Ace Books published 250 western Ace doubles between 1952 and 1973 in dos à dos format.Genres and collectabilityAce published science fiction, mysteries, and westerns, as well as books not in any of these genres. Collectors of these genres have… …   Wikipedia

  • UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • US-amerikanische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur — Amerikanische Schulkinder wählen in der kleinen Bibliothek ihrer Grundschule Bücher aus (1938)[1] Die amerikanische Kinder und Jugendliteratur umfasst alle literarischen Arbeiten, die für ein Publikum von Kindern und Jugendlichen geschaffen,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Amerikanische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur — Amerikanische Schulkinder wählen in der kleinen Bibliothek ihrer Grundschule Bücher aus (1938)[1] Die amerikanische Kinder und Jugendliteratur umfasst alle literarischen Arbeiten, die für ein Publikum von Kindern und Jugendlichen geschaffen,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Franck Sinatra — Frank Sinatra Pour les articles homonymes, voir Sinatra. Frank Sinatra …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Frank Sinatra — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Sinatra. Frank Sinatra …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Insurance — This article is about risk management. For Insurance (blackjack), see Blackjack. For Insurance run (baseball), see Insurance run. In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”