First Sergeant Henry A. Hammel - St. Louis, MO
Posted by: BruceS
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Civil War US Army Artillery Medal of Honor recipient buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM839
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2006
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First Sergeant Henry A. Hammel
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Battery A, 1st Missouri
Light Artillery.
Place and date: At Grand Gulf, Miss., 28-29 April 1863.
Entered service at: St. Louis, Mo.
Birth: Germany, 20 September 1840.
Date of Death: 29 November 1902
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 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 Private Fritz W Guerin and Private Joseph Pesch