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Woodlawn Cemetery - Syracuse New York


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This past weekend I visited Woodlawn Cemetery in Syracuse New York.

 

Woodlawn is a small to medium size cemetery with about 10,000 burials.

 

It is also the final resting place of four Medal of Honor heroes from the Civil War.

 

Philip Goettel

 

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Philip Goettel, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 24 November 1863, while serving with Company B, 149th New York Infantry, in action at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, for capture of flag and battery guidon.

 

Peter Kappesser

 

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Peter Kappesser, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 24 November 1863, while serving with Company B, 149th New York Infantry, in action at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, for capture of Confederate flag (Bragg's army).

 

Henry Klein

 

At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia, on April 6, 1865, his company was ordered to attack a Confederate position. Under heavy canister and musket fire, Klein rushed ahead of the attack, grabbed a Confederate banner from the flag bearer's hands, and returned safely back to Union lines. His citation reads simply "Capture of Battle Flag".

 

Martin Wambsgan

 

At Cedar Creek, Va., 19 October 1864. While the enemy were in close proximity, this soldier sprang forward and bore off in safety the regimental colors, the color bearer having fallen on the field of battle.

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Martin Wambsgan's Medal of Honor marker. Note that they cast the Medal of Honor turned with the star point up instead of down the way it should be.

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