Private Fritz W. Guerin - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

Private Fritz W. Guerin

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: New York, N.Y.,  17 March  1846

Date of Death: 11 July 1903

Date of issue: 10 March 1896.

Citation: With two 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 for a considerable time while the steamer was unmanageable and subjected 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 First Sergeant Henry A. Hammel and Private Joseph Pesch

Armed Service: Army

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