Samuel Grimshaw

Private · U.S. Army

Company B, 52d Ohio Infantry

6 August 1864 · Atlanta Ga

Branch: U.S. Army
Era: Civil War
Home state: Ohio
Action: Atlanta Ga

The citation

Official citation

Saved the lives of some of his comrades, and greatly imperiled his own by picking up and throwing away a lighted shell which had fallen in the midst of the company.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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