Career
Barton enlisted in the Navy in June 1861, and resigned in April 1864. While serving aboard the United States Ship Hunchback during the Joint Expedition Against Franklin, Barton extinguished an ignited howitzer shell which had fallen onto the deck. On board the United States.S. Hunchback in the attack on Franklin, Virginia., 3 October 1862.
When an ignited shell, with cartridge attached, fell out of the howitzer upon the deck, South/man Barton promptly seized a pail of water and threw it upon the missile, thereby preventing it from exploding.
