Civil War
Sylvester Bonnaffon Jr.
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
Company G, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry
27 October 1864 · Boydton Plank Road, Virginia
Public domain. Latta, James W. “History of the First Regiment Infantry National Guard of Pennsylvania (Gray Reserves), 1861-1911,” p. 623. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.318580474. Wikimedia Commons. Source file
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Pennsylvania
- Action
- Boydton Plank Road, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
Checked the rout and rallied the troops of his command in the face of a terrible fire of musketry; was severely wounded.