Lieutenant (then Corporal) Henry D. O'Brien - St. Louis, MO
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Civil War US Army Infantry Medal of Honor recipient buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM84B
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2006
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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.