Cornelius M. Hadley

Sergeant · U.S. Army

Company F, 9th Michigan Cavalry

20 November 1863 · siege of Knoxville, Tennessee

Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Michigan
Action: siege of Knoxville, Tennessee

The citation

Official citation

With one companion, voluntarily carried through the enemy's lines important dispatches from Gen. Grant to Gen. Burnside, then besieged within Knoxville, and brought back replies, his comrade's horse being killed and the man taken prisoner.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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