. 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 . t one time during the siege the Americans, in anadvanced position, sent for an Italian one-pounder. It was brought up and fired,but the fire of the Chinese was so severe that in a short time the two Italian gun-ners were wounded. No one but Mitchell was able to handle the gun, and he did itwell until the small fo
. 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 . t one time during the siege the Americans, in anadvanced position, sent for an Italian one-pounder. It was brought up and fired,but the fire of the Chinese was so severe that in a short time the two Italian gun-ners were wounded. No one but Mitchell was able to handle the gun, and he did itwell until the small force was driven off the wall. Mitchell would not, however,desert the gun, and only through his energy it was prevented from falling into thehands of the enemy, Mitchell also enjoys the distinction of having captured a Chinese flag. He hadespied it in a fortification near the wall and, approaching it slyly, had made asudden grab for the colors when he was discovered. The Chinese soldiers held onto the flag-pole. Mitchell stuck to the flag. They shouted, stabbed and shot athim, pulled at the flag-pole, but the plucky American would not let go of his the flag-pole broke and Mitchell ran away with the flag, which subse-quently was sent to Washington as a war >- oo cn o I-< tr X O I- QLU O< — 514 — From June 20th, the day on which Baron von Ketteler was murdered, untilJuly 16th, many acts of exceptional heroism were performed in Pekin. Thosewhich were rewarded by the Medal of Honor were performed by Sergeant E. , Corporal John 0. Dahlgren and Privates Martin Hunt and F. A. Young, ofthe Marine Corps, and Hospital Apprentice Robert Stanley, the latter having distin-guished himself by voluntarily carrying messages under heavy fire to the command-ing officers. The following also received the Medal of Honor for distinguished conductin erecting barricades under heavy fire from July 21st to August 17th: Pri-vates Erwin J. Boydston, W
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