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Philip Bazaar
US Navy seaman who received the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War
Seaman Philip Bazaar, born in Chile, South America, was a United States Navy seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration of the United States for valor in combat.
According to the citation he distinguished himself during the battle for Fort Fisher of the American Civil War.
Biography
Bazaar, a resident of Massachusetts, was an immigrant from Chile who joined the Union Navy at New Bedford, Massachusetts.[1] Bazaar was assigned to the USS Santiago de Cuba during the American Civil War.[1]Santiago de Cuba was a wooden, brigantine-rigged, side-wheel steamship under the command of Rear Admiral David D.
Porter.[2]
In the later part of 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on Fort Fisher, a stronghold of the Confederate States of America. It protected the vital trading routes of Wilmington's port,
