CILLEY, CLINTON A. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Captain, Company C, 2d Minnesota Infantry. Place
and date: At Chickamauga, Ga., 20 September 1863. Entered service at: Sasioja,
Minn. Birth: Rockingham County, N.H. Date of issue: 12 June 1895. Citation:
Seized the colors of a retreating regiment and led it into the thick of
the attack.
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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