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Source Description
This letter describes in great detail a design for the Medal of Honor featuring a seaman grasping a cannon rammer and receiving a garland from the figure of America.
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80607154
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Letter from James B. Longacre, Engraver to the Mint of the United States
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Letter from James B. Longacre, Engraver to the Mint of the United States
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This letter describes in great detail a design for the Medal of Honor featuring a seaman grasping a cannon rammer and receiving a garland from the figure of America.
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Records of the U.S. Mint
Papers and Correspondence
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1862-01-15
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1862
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