Samuel Grimshaw

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Saved the lives of some of his comrades, and greatly imperiled his own by picking up and throwing away a lighted shell which had fallen in the midst of the company.

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

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