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Civil War
Benjamin F. McAlwee
Sergeant · U.S. Army
Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry
30 July 1864 · Petersburg, Virginia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- District of Columbia
- Action
- Petersburg, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.
