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Civil War
James Gardiner
Private · U.S. Army
Company I, 36th U.S. Colored Troops
29 September 1864 · Chapins Farm, Virginia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Virginia
- Action
- Chapins Farm, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Rushed in advance of his brigade, shot a rebel officer who was on the parapet rallying his men, and then ran him through with his bayonet.
