Civil War
Adelbert Ames
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
5th U.S. Artillery
21 July 1861 · Bull Run, Virginia
Public domain. Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Source file
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Maine
- Action
- Bull Run, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
remained upon the field in command of a section of Griffin's Battery, directing its fire after being severely wounded and refusing to leave the field until too weak to sit upon the caisson where he had been placed by men of his command.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
