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Sergeant Isaiah B. Sapp is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/hampton.asp. He served in the U.S. Army, Company F, 71st Pennsylvania and 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry and received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Navy, under the alias Isacc Sapp, on board the U.S.S. Shenandoah for the rescue of a drowning shipmate, December 15, 1871. Born in 1844 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sapp later joined the Navy from that state. By December 15, 1871, he was serving as a seaman in the engineering department of the USS Shenandoah. On that day, while the Shenandoah was at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, he jumped overboard and, with Midshipman Miller, rescued Seaman Charles Prince from drowning. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor two months later, on February 8, 1872. His first name was misspelled as "Isacc" on the citation. Sapp died in 1913.  
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/isaac-b-sapp.

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