Private Joseph Pesch - St. Louis, MO
Posted by: BruceS
N 38° 41.280 W 090° 13.738
15S E 741019 N 4285799
Civil War US Army Artillery Medal of Honor recipient buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM83C
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2006
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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