Lieutenant Frederick W. Fout - St. Louis, MO
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Civil War US Army Artillery Medal of Honor recipient buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM84N
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2006
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Lieutenant Frederick W. Fout
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 15th Battery,
Indiana Light Artillery.
Place and date: Near Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 15 September
1862.
Entered service at: Indianapolis, Ind.
Birth: Germany, 30 October 1839
Date of Death: 6 June 1905.
Date of issue: 2 November 1896.
Citation: Voluntarily gathered the men of the battery
together, remanned the guns, which had been ordered abandoned by an officer,
opened fire, and kept up the same on the enemy until after the surrender.
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