Lieutenant (then Corporal) Henry D. O'Brien - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

Lieutenant (then Corporal) Henry D. O'Brien

Rank and organization: Corporal, Company E, 1st Minnesota Infantry.

Place and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July 1863.

Entered service at: St. Anthony Falls, Minn. Birth: Maine, January 1842.

Date of Death: 1 November 1902

Date of issue: 9 April 1890.

Citation: Taking up the colors where they had fallen, he rushed ahead of his regiment, close to the muzzles of the enemy's guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time.

Armed Service: Army

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