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Civil War
Jacob G. Orth
Corporal · U.S. Army
Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry
17 September 1862 · Antietam, Maryland
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Pennsylvania
- Action
- Antietam, Maryland
The citation
Official citation
Capture of flag of 7th South Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.), in hand_to_hand encounter, although he was wounded in the shoulder.
