Watch List notes:

U.S.A., WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. TURKEY and related medals, 1853, USA / Austria / Hungary / Turkey, The Rescue of Martin Koszta, large Copper Presentation Medal, as awarded to Commander Duncan Ingram, by Peter F Cross, James B Longacre and S Eastman, USS Saint Louis and the Austrian brig SMS Hussar in the harbour at Smyrna, the town beyond, rev eagle at base of oak and olive wreath, legend in ten lines above, PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ... AS A TESTIMONIAL OF HIS GALLANT AND JUDICIOUS CONDUCT ..., 102mm, 497g Duncan N Ingraham (1802-1891) entered the US navy in 1812. In 1853, as commander of the USS St Louis by threatening to open fire on the Austrian SMS Hussar, he secured the release of Martin Koszta, a leading figure from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and prospective American citizen, who had been seized by Greeks at Smyrna at the instigation of Austrian officials. In 1861 Ingram was appointed chief of ordnance, construction and repair in the Confederate Navy. XF