Civil War
Thomas H. L. Payne
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
Company E, 37th Illinois Infantry
9 April 1865 · Fort Blakely, Alabama
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- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Illinois
- Action
- Fort Blakely, Alabama
The citation
Official citation
While acting regimental quartermaster, learning of an expected assault, requested assignment to a company that had no commissioned officers present; was so assigned, and was one of the first to lead his men into the enemy's works.
