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Civil War
Welis H. Blodgett
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
Company D, 37th Illinois Infantry
30 September 1862 · Newtonia, Missouri
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Illinois
- Action
- Newtonia, Missouri
The citation
Official citation
With a single orderly, captured an armed picket of 8 men and marched them in prisoners.