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, Sgt. Martin fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious 2-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan. See also Thomas Cripps List of Medal of Honor recipients List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P Irish Americans in the American Civil War Mobile, Alabama in the American Civil War New Orleans in the American Civil War Pennsylvania in the American Civil War References External links 1826 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Irish people Military personnel from Derry (city) People from County Londonderry United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients United States Marines Union Marines People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor Burials at Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)