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Civil War
George W. Brush
Lieutenant · U.S. Army
Company B, 34th U.S. Colored Troops
24 May 1864 · Ashepoo River, South Carolina
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Ashepoo River, South Carolina
The citation
Official citation
Voluntarily commanded a boat crew, which went to the rescue of a large number of Union soldiers on board the stranded steamer Boston, and with great gallantry succeeded in conveying them to shore, being exposed during the entire time to heavy fire from a Confederate battery.