DE WITT, RICHARD W. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company D, 47th Ohio Infantry. Place
and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: Oxford,
Ohio. Birth: Butler County, Ohio. Date of issue: 10 August 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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