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Civil War
Charles Breyer
Sergeant · U.S. Army
Company I, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
23 August 1862 · Rappahannock Station, Virginia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Pennsylvania
- Action
- Rappahannock Station, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Voluntarily, and at great personal risk, picked up an unexploded shell and threw it away, thus doubtless saving the life of a comrade whose arm had been taken off by the same shell.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
