Civil War
Zenas R. Bliss
Colonel · U.S. Army
7th Rhode Island Infantry
13 December 1862 · Fredericksburg, Virginia
Public domain. Engraving from Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Rhode Island, 1916. Source file
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Maine
- Action
- Fredericksburg, Virginia
The citation
Official citation
This officer, to encourage his regimen; which had never before been in action, and which had been ordered to lie down to protect itself from the enemy's fire, arose to his feet, advanced in front of the line, and himself fired several shots at the enemy at short range, being fully exposed to their fire at the time.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
