First Lieutenant Nineveh S. McKeen - Collinsville, IL
Posted by: BruceS
N 38° 39.948 W 089° 59.048
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Civil War Army Infantry Medal of Honor recipient buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Collinsville, IL.
Waymark Code: WM8RW
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2006
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Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, Company H, 21st
Illinois Infantry.
Place and date: At Stone River, Tenn., 30 December 1862.
At Liberty Gap, Tenn., 25 June 1863.
Entered service at: Marshall, Clark County, Ill.
Birth: Marshall, Clark County, Ill, 1837.
Date of Death: 22 December 1890.
Date of issue: 23 June 1890.
Citation: Conspicuous in the charge at Stone River,
Tenn., where he was three times wounded. At Liberty Gap, Tenn., captured colors
of 8th Arkansas Infantry (C.S.A.).