MORRISONS COVE GETTYSBURG MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Plaques
Year Dedicated: 2021
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
MEDAL OF HONOR CPL JAMES LEVI ROUSH CO D 6TH PA
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal James Levi Roush, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 2 July 1863, while serving with Company D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Corporal Roush was one of six 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.
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