Civil War sailor Luke M. Griswold finally received a marked grave, the Associated Press reports.
A marble gravestone was installed in April. The site was visited by Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.) on Memorial Day. Prior to the marking, Griswold’s burial site was marked with a stone engraved with the number 297.
Griswold received a Congressional Medal of Honor for rescuing men from sinking ships over 100 years ago.
On Dec. 30, 1862, a supply ship dispatched rescue boats for the crew from the USS Monitor, which was sinking in a storm off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The Union’s first ironclad ship, the Monitor had fought with its Confederate counterpart, the Merrimack, in one of the war’s best-known sea battles.
After delivering two groups of Monitor sailors to safety, Griswold’s boat was blown off course and presumed lost. It drifted 50 miles before being picked up by a passing ship.
