WILKINS, LEANDER A. - Medal of Honor Recipient


Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company H, 9th New Hampshire Infantry.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Lancaster, N.H.

Date of issue:   1 December 1864.

Citation:   Recaptured the colors of 21st Massachusetts Infantry in a hand_to_hand encounter.

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)