Robert Robertson

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

While acting as aide_de_camp to a general officer, seeing a regiment break to the rear, he seized its colors, rode with them to the front in the face of the advancing enemy, and rallied the retreating regiment.

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

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