Rank: Corporal
Organization: Company K, 12th New York Infantry.
Entered Service: ?
Birth: Darien, NY
Date Medal Issued: 5 April 1898
Date of Action: 18 July 1861
Place of Action: Blackburn’s Ford, VA
Citation: With a companion, refused to retreat when the part of the regiment to which he was attached was driven back in disorder, but remained upon the skirmish line for some time thereafter, firing upon the enemy.
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Harry Smeltzer
Bull Runnings 
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