Photo #: NH 56840
Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy
Sword, scabbard and epaulettes presented to Lieutenant Beale
by his fellow officers, circa 1847, and inscribed: "Presented
by the Officers of the United States Navy on the station at San
Diego, California, to Lieutenant Edward F. Beale, of the United
States Navy, for his gallant conduct in the charge upon the Mexican
forces at San Pasqual and San Bernadino, and his carrying intelligence
to San Diego of the position of General Kearny through the enemy's
lines at great personal risk on the 6th and 7th of December 1846."
Photographed by PH1 B.L. Mason, USN, 3 September 1964.
Courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Decatur
House Collection.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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