This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4604 Message Board Post: Source: http://www.army.mil/cmh/Default.htm Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along information that may be useful. WELLS, WILLIAM Rank and organization: Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 1832, Germany. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: As landsman and lookout on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Wells performed his duties with skill and courage throughout a 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.