DORSEY, DECATUR - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company B, 39th U.S. Colored Troops.
Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864. Entered service at: Baltimore
County, Md. Birth: Howard County, Md. Date of issue: 8 November 1865. Citation:
Planted his colors on the Confederate works in advance of his regiment,
and when the regiment was driven back to the Union works he carried the
colors there and bravely rallied the men.
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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