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CLEAR LAKE FREEDOM ROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL SIDE B

CLEAR LAKE FREEDOM ROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL SIDE B
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Location: N 8TH STREET AND MAIN AVENUE

City: CLEAR LAKE

State: Iowa

Zip Code: 50428

Type of Memorial: Veterans Memorial Rock

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: RUTH VANSTEENWYK

Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Henry I. Smith, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 15 March 1865, while serving with Company B, 7th Iowa Infantry, in action at Black River, North Carolina. First Lieutenant Smith voluntarily and under fire rescued a comrade from death by drowning.

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