Lorenzo Deming (my great-great-great uncle)

Lorenzo Deming
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This summer, my grandmother brought my mother and me to the Fairview Cemetery in New Britain, CT. The first grave we stopped at was that of Lorenzo Deming. Seeing the grave led me to do some research on the Internet.

We also had a chance to visit the graves of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother on my grandfather Bergstrom's side. Later in the day, we visited his (my grandfather Bergstrom's) grave in Kensington.

Information about Lorenzo Deming:

Birth: Sep. 6, 1843
Death: Feb. 8, 1865

Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Prisoner of War. He has a "In memory of" marker in Fairview Cemetery in New Britain, CT. He died in Salisbury Prison North Carolina which is now part of Salisbury National Cemetery. He is one of 11,700 unknowns buried in a long trench. He served as a Landsman in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Deming served on board the US Picket Boat No. 1 in action , 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram Albemarle which had resisted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her. The picket boat, equipped with a spar torpedo, succeeded in passing the enemy pickets within 20 yards without being discoverd and then made for the Albemarle under a full head of steam. Immediately taken under fire by the ram, the small boat plunged on, jumped the log boom which encircled the target and exploded its torpedo under the port bow of the ram. The picket boat was destroyed by enemy fire and almost the entire crew was taken prisoner or lost." (bio by: Don Morfe)