Colonel (then First Lieutenant ) Welis H. Blodgett, - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

Colonel Welis H. Blodgett

Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, Company D, 37th Illinois Infantry.

Place and date: At Newtonia, Mo., 30 September 1862.

Entered service at: Chicago, Ill.

Born: 29 January 1839, Downers Grove, Ill.

Date of Death: 8 May 1929.

Date of issue: 15 February 1894.

Citation: With a single orderly, captured an armed picket of 8 men and marched them in prisoners.

Armed Service: Army

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