Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Medal of Honor

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Captain of the Top

    Division:

    U.S.S. Saratoga

    Action Date:

    June 25, 1881

    War Department, General Orders No. 326 (October 18, 1884)

    The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Captain of the Top William Sadler, United States Navy, for gallant and heroic conduct in jumping overboard from the U.S.S. SARATOGA, off Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, 25 June 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, Frank Gallagher, Second Class Boy, who had fallen overboard.