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WINTHROP D. PUTNAM MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

WINTHROP D. PUTNAM MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Location: 41 ELM STREET

City: SOUTHBRIDGE

State: Massachusetts

Zip Code: 1550

Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Plaques

Year Dedicated: 1914

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

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 Winthrop D. Putnam, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 22nd May 1863, while serving with Company A, 77th Illinois Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Corporal Putnam carried, with others, by hand, a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy’s works.


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