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Civil War

George Wilhelm

Captain · U.S. Army

Company F, 56th Ohio Infantry

16 May 1863 · Champion Hill, or Bakers Creek, Mississippi

Branch
U.S. Army
Era
Civil War
Home state
Ohio
Action
Champion Hill, or Bakers Creek, Mississippi

The citation

Official citation

Having been badly wounded in the breast and captured, he made a prisoner of his captor and brought him into camp.

Sources

Ready I Left My Home — Staff Sgt. Anisha Johnson

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