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Organization: Company E, 4th Vermont Infantry
Entered Service: Boston, Mass.
Birth: Salem, N.Y.
Date Medal Issued: 17 September 1891.
Date of Action: 14 September 1862.
Place of Action: Crampton's Gap (cited as South Mountain), Md.
Citation
Rode alone, in advance of his regiment, into the enemy's lines, and before his own men came up received the surrender of the major of a Confederate regiment, together with the colors and 116 men.
More about this award
See more about this, and the other Medal of Honor for action at Crampton's Gap.