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English: William Sands (1835–1918) fought with the Union Army during the American Civil War as a principal musician with the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry. Promoted to the rank of first sergeant on January 31, 1865, he received his nation’s highest award for valor, the U.S. Medal of Honor, for capturing an enemy flag and transporting it from behind Confederate States Army lines to those of the Union Army at during the Battle of Dabney’s Mills/Hatcher's Run, Virginia (February 6–7, 1865). |
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| Source | Beyer, Walter F. and Oscar F. Keydel. “Deeds of Valor: How America's Heroes Won the Medal of Honor: A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars in Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battlefield, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations”, Vol. 1: “Valorous Deeds at Hatcher’s Run”, p. 485. Detroit, Michigan: The Perrien-Keydel Company, 1903. URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081908182;view=1up;seq=533;size=150 |
| Author | Beyer, Walter F. and Oscar F. Keydel. “Deeds of Valor: How America's Heroes Won the Medal of Honor: A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars in Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battlefield, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations”, Vol. 1: “Valorous Deeds at Hatcher’s Run”, p. 485. Detroit, Michigan: The Perrien-Keydel Company, 1903. URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081908182;view=1up;seq=533;size=150 |
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