FUGER, FREDERICK - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery. Place
and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July 1863. Entered service at: ?.
Birth: Germany. Date of issue: 24 August 1897. Citation: All the officers
of his battery having been killed or wounded and five of its guns disabled
in Pickett's assault, he succeeded to the command and fought the remaining
gun with most distinguished gallantry until the battery was ordered withdrawn.
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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