Lewis J. Ingalls

Private · U.S. Army

Company K, 8th Vermont Infantry

4 September 1862 · Boutte Station, La, Entered service an Belvidere, Vermont

Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Massachusetts
Action: Boutte Station, La, Entered service an Belvidere, Vermont

The citation

Official citation

A railroad train guarded by about 60 men on flat cars having been sidetracked by a misplaced switch into an ambuscade of guerrillas who were rapidly shooting down the unprotected guards, this soldier, under a severe fire in which he was wounded, ran to another switch and, opening it, enabled the train and the surviving guards to escape.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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