SgtMaj. Benjamin Franklin McAlwee - Washington, DC
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N 38° 52.914 W 076° 58.601
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McAlwee is one of two Medal of Honor recipients buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC.
Waymark Code: WM9CW4
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member cache_test_dummies
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Rank and Organization: Sergeant Major, Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry. Place and Date: At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864. Birth: Washington, D.C. Date Of Issue: 4 April 1898.

Citation: Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own. Link

Armed Service: Army
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