AYERS, DAVID - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 57th Ohio Infantry. Place
and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: Upper Sandusky,
Ohio. Birth: Kalida, Ohio. Date of issue: 13 April 1894. Citation: Gallantry
in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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