MEARS, GEORGE W. - Medal of Honor Recipient


Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves.
Place and date:   At Gettysburg, Pa., 2 July 1863.

Entered service at:   Bloomsburgh, Pa.

Birth:   Bloomsburgh, Pa.

Date of issue:   16 February 1897.

Citation:   With five volunteers he gallantly charged on a number of the enemy's sharpshooters concealed in a log house, captured them, and brought them into the Union lines.

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)