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Medal of Honor Recipient - SCOTT, JOHN M.

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Back to:   Civil War Medal of Honor Index   General Index


    Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company F, 21st Ohio Infantry. Place and date: Georgia, April 1862.

    Entered service at:   Finley, Ohio.

    Birth:   Stark County, Ohio.

    Date of issue:   4 August 1866.

    Citation:   One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., and attempted to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta.


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