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Abel G. Cadwallader

Corporal Abel G. Cadwallader, Army, received the Medal of Honor for actions on February 6, 1865 at Hatcher's Run & Dabney's Mills, Virginia during the Civil War.

U.S. Civil War February 6, 1865

Serving as a soldier in the U.S. Army, Corporal Abel G. Cadwallader received the Medal of Honor for his actions on February 6, 1865 at Hatcher's Run & Dabney's Mills, Virginia during the Civil War. At the time he was serving with Company H, 1st Maryland Infantry. Cadwallader was about 24 years old.

9 other service members also received the Medal of Honor for actions on the same day. The medal was presented on January 5, 1897, 31 years after the action. He later rose to the rank of Sergeant.

Cadwallader was born in 1841 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland. His Medal of Honor is credited to Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland. Cadwallader died on July 6, 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of about 66. He is buried at Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cadwallader is one of 1,525 Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War and one of 85 credited to Maryland.

★ Flags & Colors

Official Medal of Honor citation

Gallantly planted the colors on the enemy's works in advance of the arrival of his regiment.

Citation text: U.S. Government, public domain.

Battles and campaigns

Also served in: American Civil War.

Places

  • Born: Baltimore — map
  • Buried: Loudon Park Cemetery — map

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Timeline

  1. 1841
    Born in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland
  2. February 6, 1865
    Act of valor — Hatcher's Run & Dabney's Mills, Virginia
    Age about 24. Company H, 1st Maryland Infantry
  3. January 5, 1897
    Medal of Honor presented
  4. July 6, 1907
    Died in Baltimore, Maryland
    Age about 66.
  5. Resting place
    Loudon Park Cemetery
    Baltimore, Maryland

Biography

Abel G. Cadwallader (1841 – July 6, 1907) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Hatcher's Run. Born in 1841 in Baltimore, Maryland, Cadwallader was living in Frederick, Maryland when he enlisted in the Army in May 1861. He served as a corporal in Company H of the 1st Maryland Infantry Regiment. During the Battle of Hatcher's Run in Virginia on February 6, 1865, Cadwallader "[g]allantly planted the colors on the enemy's works in advance of the arrival of his regiment." For this action, he was issued the Medal of Honor several decades later, on January 5, 1897.

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Also honored for actions on February 6, 1865

DC Daniel G. Caldwell Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JC James Coey Major · Army Civil War · 1865 CD Charles Day Private · Army Civil War · 1865 John Carroll Delaney Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JS John Christopher Sagelhurst Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 WS William Sands First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 FS Francis M. Smith First Lieutenant & Adjutant · Army Civil War · 1865 JT John J. Thompson Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 John Mitchell Vanderslice Private · Army Civil War · 1865

More Civil War recipients from Maryland

JB John E. Buffington Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JS James E. Sterling Coal Heaver · Navy Civil War · 1864 AH Alfred B. Hilton Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦ WM William H. Myers Private · Army Civil War · 1865 WW William Wright Yeoman · Navy Civil War · 1864 WC William M. Carr Master-at-Arms · Navy Civil War · 1864
Sources. Service and award details compiled from the recipient record of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Wikidata and Wikipedia. The narrative summary is generated from these records. Spotted an error? Send a correction.