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Civil War
David L. Smith
Sergeant · U.S. Army
Battery E, 1st New York Light Artillery
6 April 1862 · Warwick Courthouse, Virginia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Warwick Courthouse, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
This soldier, when a shell struck an ammunition chest exploding a number of cartridges and setting fire to the packing tow, procured water and extinguished the fire, thus preventing the explosion of the remaining ammunition.