Louis Sacriste

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Saved from capture a gun of the 5th Maine Battery. Voluntarily carried orders which resulted in saving from destruction or capture the picket line of the 1st Division, 2d Army Corps.

Rank: First Lieutenant
Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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