Civil War
Powhatan Beaty
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
Company G, 5th U.S. Colored Troops
29 September 1864 · Chapins Farm, Virginia
Public domain. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 , collector Source file
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Ohio
- Action
- Chapins Farm, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Took command of his company, all the officers having been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.