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A Soldier's Medal of HonorThe War Department has published a complete list of “Medals of Honor issued by the War Department up to and including September1, 1904.” The date of issue, place and date of action and ground of the award of each medal are given. The list includes several hundred names, most of them of veterans of the great civil war. Among them is the name of Thaddeus S. Smith, now a resident of Friday Harbor, who at the battle of Gettysburg, the turning point ofthe war, July 2, 1863. “was one ofsix volunteers who charged upon a log house near the Devil’s den, where a squad of the enemy’s sharpshooters were sheltered, and compelled their surrender.” Mr. Smith, though a mere boy at that time, only a little over sixteen years of age, was a corporal in Co. E., Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves. He enlisted May 2, 1861 and served until the close of the war, his discharge bearing date July 8, 1865. He is one of the youngest veterans of the great armies of the Union who served his country during all the years of the gigantic strugglefor its preservation.
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Friday Harbor San Juan Islander
Friday Harbor, Washington, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1905
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