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HAMPTON M. ROACH MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

HAMPTON M. ROACH MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Location: NORTH LAKESHORE DRIVE AND PRYCE STREET

City: LAKE CHARLES

State: Louisiana

Zip Code: 70601

Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Plaques

Year Dedicated: 1998

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: INDIAN WARS

Photograph By: CAJUN SCRAMBLER

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 Corporal Hampton Mitchell Roach, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on September 29 – 5 October 1879, while serving with Company F, 5th U.S. Cavalry, in action at Milk River, Colorado. Corporal Roach erected breastworks under fire; also kept the command supplied with water three consecutive nights while exposed to fire from ambushed Indians at close range.

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