CARR, EUGENE A. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Colonel, 3d Illinois Cavalry.
Place and date:
At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Hamburg, Erie County,
N.Y. Born: 10 March 1830, Boston Corner, Erie County, N.Y. Date of issue:
16 January 1894. Citation: Directed the deployment of his command and held
his ground, under a brisk fire of shot and shell in which he was several
times wounded.
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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