. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . and afterwards brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for his action. The action in which Colonel Wheelock G. Veazey won his Medal of Honor, as wellas his conduct in that affair, are given on page 239, Volume I. Likewise are accounts of the heroic deeds performed by Captain Charles. of Company H. Fifth Ve
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . and afterwards brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for his action. The action in which Colonel Wheelock G. Veazey won his Medal of Honor, as wellas his conduct in that affair, are given on page 239, Volume I. Likewise are accounts of the heroic deeds performed by Captain Charles. of Company H. Fifth Vermont Infantry and Brigadier-General Alexander narrated on pages 518 and 224, Volume I, respectively. FIRST Lieutenant John W. Clark, regimental quartermaster of the Sixth VermontInfantry, was in command of a squad of convalescents defending a wagon-train. On the 28th of July, 1863, while near Warrenton, Va., the train was at-tacked by a rebel cavalry force greatly outnumbering Clarks squad. With a navysix-shooter, a breech-loading rifle and the gallant support of his convalescents, hemade a bold stand and beat off the rebels. Although he was severely wounded inthis engagement, he remained in the saddle for twenty hours, until the wagon-trainwas out of the enemys 527 — * * . w « [minftmniinninlnniTiinniiiiiiiiiiFiiililliriimllll
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