DAVIS, FREEMAN - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company B, 80th Ohio Infantry. Place
and date: At Missionary Ridge, Tenn., 25 November 1863. Entered service
at:?. Birth: Newcomerstown, Ohio. Date of issue: 30 March 1898. Citation:
This soldier, while his regiment was falling back, seeing the 2 color bearers
shot down, under a severe fire and at imminent peril recovered both the
flags and saved them from capture.
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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