John K. Bucklyn

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

3 May 1863 · Chancellorsville, Virginia

Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Rhode Island
Action: Chancellorsville, Virginia

The citation

Official citation

Though himself wounded, gallantly fought his section of the battery under a fierce fire from the enemy until his ammunition was all expended, many of the cannoneers and most of the horses killed or wounded, and the enemy within 25 yards of the guns, when, disabling one piece, he brought off the other in safety.