Private Joseph Pesch - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

Private Joseph Pesch

Rank and organization: Private, Battery A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery.

Place and date: At Grand Gulf, Miss., 28_29 April 1863.

Entered service at: St. Louis, Mo.

Birth: Prussia., 18 July 1835

Date of Death: 11 October 1903

Date of issue: 10 March 1896.

Citation: With 2 comrades voluntarily took position on board the steamer Cheeseman, in charge of all the guns and ammunition of the battery, and remained in charge of the same, although the steamer became unmanageable and was exposed for some time to a heavy fire from the enemy.

 

His two comrades that joined him on this brave mission were also awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and also buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery see Private Fritz W Guerin and First Sergeant Henry A. Hammel

Armed Service: Army

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