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Acts of valor

Flags & Colors

Capturing an enemy flag, rescuing or carrying the colors under fire — the defining act of 19th-century battlefield courage.

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A–Z by last name

SM Samuel McConnell Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 GM George E. McDonald Private · Army Civil War · 1865 SM Samuel O. McElhinny Private · Army Civil War · 1865 PM Patrick H. McEnroe Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 GM George McKee Color Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865

Nineveh S. McKeen First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1863 NM Nathaniel A. McKown Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 FM Francis M. McMillen Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JM John P. McVeane Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 ✦ WM Walter F. McWhorter Commissary Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 GM George E. Meach Farrier · Army Civil War · 1864 JM John William Menter Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JM James K. Merrifield Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 JM John G. Merritt Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1861 FM Frank Miller Private · Army Civil War · 1865 HM Henry August Miller Captain · Army Civil War · 1865

James P. Miller Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JM John G. Miller Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 JM John Miller Private · Army Civil War · 1865 AM Alexander H. Mitchell First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864 TM Theodore Mitchell Private · Army Civil War · 1865

John Henry Moffitt Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 PM Patrick H. Monaghan Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 GM George G. Moore Private · Army Civil War · 1864 WM Wilbur F. Moore Private · Army Civil War · 1864 LM Lewis Morgan Private · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦ RM Richard H. Morgan Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 WM William Powers Morris Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 BM Benjamin Morse Private · Army Civil War · 1864 WM Walter L. Mundell Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865

Harvey May Munsell Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 DM Daniel J. Murphy Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 DM Dennis J. f Murphy Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 JM John P. Murphy Private · Army Civil War · 1862 TM Thomas J. Murphy First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 TM Thomas Murphy Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 GM George S. Myers Private · Army Civil War · 1863 EN Edwin Michael Neville Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 WN William Henry Newman Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865

Robert Niven Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 JN John J. Nolan Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862

Conrad Noll Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 EN Elliott Malloy Norton Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 JN John R. Norton Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 PO Peter O'Brien Private · Army Civil War · 1865 TO Timothy O'Connor Private · Army Civil War · 1864 SO Stephen O'Neill Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 CO Charles Oliver Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JO John N. Opel Private · Army Civil War · 1864 RO Robert Levan Orr Major · Army Civil War · 1865 JO Jacob George Orth Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 TP Thomas Parker Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865

Henry Jeremiah Parks Private · Army Civil War · 1864 JP James W. Parks Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 JP James Kastor Peirsol Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865

Galusha Pennypacker Colonel · Army Civil War · 1865

Philip Petty Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 JP Josiah Phillips Private · Army Civil War · 1865

Charles H. Pinkham Sergeant Major · Army Civil War · 1865

George J. Pitman Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 HP Henry E. Plant Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 GP George Crawford Platt Private · Army Civil War · 1863

George H. Plowman Sergeant Major · Army Civil War · 1864

Thomas Plunkett Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 NP Norman F. Potter First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 HP Hugh Purvis Private · Marine Corps Korea 1871 · 1871 MR Myron H. Ranney Private · Army Civil War · 1862 AR Alfred Ransbottom First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 MR Morton A. Read First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 GR George F. Rebmann Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 GR George W. Reed Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Charles A. Reeder Private · Army Civil War · 1865

Robert Alexander Reid Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Daniel P. Reigle Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 JR James Richmond Private · Army Civil War · 1863 ✦ JR John Henry Ricksecker Private · Army Civil War · 1864 RR Rudolph R. Riddell Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 TR Thomas Riley Private · Army Civil War · 1865 OR Otis O. Roberts Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 JR John H. Robinson Private · Army Civil War · 1863 TR Thomas Robinson Private · Army Civil War · 1864 OR Oliver P. Rood Private · Army Civil War · 1863 GR George Washington Roosevelt First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 SR Stephen Rought Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 LR Lewis A. Rounds Private · Army Civil War · 1864 CR Charles L. Russell Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 CS Charles Francis Sancrainte Private · Army Civil War · 1864 ES Edwin F. Savacool Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 PS Philipp Schlachter Private · Army Civil War · 1864 GS George William Schmal Blacksmith · Army Civil War · 1865

George Schneider Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 CS Charles Schorn Chief Bugler · Army Civil War · 1865 DS David H. Scofield Quartermaster Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864

Alexander Scott Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 JS John Wallace Scott Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 JS James M. Seitzinger Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Emisire Shahan Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 CS Charles Shambaugh Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 JS John Shellenberger Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 WS William Shepherd Private · Army Civil War · 1865 MS Marshall Sherman Private · Army Civil War · 1863 BS Bernard Shields Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JS John Shilling First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 RS Robert F. Shipley First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 LS Levi Shoemaker Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 GS George J. Shopp Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JS John Simmons Private · Army Civil War · 1865 WS William Thomas Simmons First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864 ES Ebenezer Skellie Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 AS Andrew Jackson Sloan Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Alonzo Smith Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864

Andrew Jackson Smith Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦

Joseph Sewall Smith Lieutenant Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 OS Otis W. Smith Private · Army Civil War · 1864 DS David Southard Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JS Joseph E. Sova Saddler · Army Civil War · 1865 GS George W. Stewart First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JS Joseph Stewart Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JS Joseph Stickels Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 GS George Stokes Private · Army Civil War · 1864