Colonel (then First Lieutenant ) Welis H. Blodgett, - St. Louis, MO
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Civil War US Army Infantry Medal of Honor recipient buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM83D
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2006
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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.