Patrick Scanlan

Private · U.S. Army

Company A, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry. P/ace and date: At Ashepoo River, S.C., 24 May 1864

Date not recorded · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Massachusetts
Action: Patrick Scanlan, an unrecorded date

The citation

Official citation

Volunteered as a member of a boat crew which went to the rescue of a large number of Union soldiers on board the stranded steamer Boston, and with great gallantry assisted in conveying them to shore, being exposed during the entire time to a heavy fire from a Confederate battery.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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