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Civil War

Stephen Thomas

Colonel · U.S. Army

8th Vermont Infantry

19 October 1864 · Cedar Creek, Virginia

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Branch
U.S. Army
Era
Civil War
Home state
Vermont
Action
Cedar Creek, Virginia

The citation

Official citation

Distinguished conduct in a desperate hand_to_hand encounter, in which the advance of the enemy was checked.

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