Charles Breyer

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Voluntarily, and at great personal risk, picked up an unexploded shell and threw it away, thus doubtless saving the life of a comrade whose arm had been taken off by the same shell.

Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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