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Civil War
John H. Patterson
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
11th U.S. Infantry
5 May 1864 · Wilderness, Virginia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Wilderness, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Under the heavy fire of the advancing enemy, picked up and carried several hundred yards to a place of safety a wounded officer of his regiment who was helpless and would otherwise have been burned in the forest.
