Civil War
John F. Weston
Major · U.S. Army
4th Kentucky Cavalry
13 April 1865 · Wetumpka, Alabama
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- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Kentucky
- Action
- Wetumpka, Alabama
The citation
Official citation
This officer, with a small detachment, while en route to destroy steamboats loaded with supplies for the enemy, was stopped by an unfordable river, but with 5 of his men swam the river, captured 2 leaky canoes, and ferried his men across. He then encountered and defeated the enemy, and on reaching Wetumpka found the steamers anchored in midstream. By a ruse obtained possession of a boat, with which he reached the steamers and demanded and received their surrender.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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