First Sergeant Henry A. Hammel - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

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

Armed Service: Army

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