Dewitt Clinton Lewis

Captain · U.S. Army

Company F, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry

16 June 1862 · Secessionville, South Carolina

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Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Pennsylvania
Action: Secessionville, South Carolina

The citation

Official citation

While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of can1ster shot at short range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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