Cornelius Hadley

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

With one companion, voluntarily carried through the enemy's lines important dispatches from Gen. Grant to Gen. Burnside, then besieged within Knoxville, and brought back replies, his comrade's horse being killed and the man taken prisoner.

Rank: Sergeant
Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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