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Civil War
Jacob F. Yeager
Private · U.S. Army
Company H, 101st Ohio Infantry
11 May 1864 · Buzzard's Roost, Georgia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Ohio
- Action
- Buzzard's Roost, Georgia
The citation
Official citation
Seized a shell with fuze burning that had fallen in the ranks of his company and threw it into a stream, thereby probably saving his comrades from injury.
