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Service Profile
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Major
- Service Era
- American Civil War, Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- Medals Recorded
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Lewis A. Rounds
Major, U.S. Army
Support & adopt this hero ↓American Civil WarEastern Theater of the American Civil WarBattle of Spotsylvania Court House
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Biography
Seized an enemy flag in the bloody Mule Shoe mele!
Lewis A. Rounds captured an enemy flag during one of the Civil War's fiercest close-range battles. Rounds served as a private in Company D, 8th Ohio Infantry and later held the brevet rank of major.
On May 12, 1864, at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, Union and Confederate troops fought at extremely close quarters around the Mule Shoe salient. During the battle Rounds captured a Confederate flag, an act for which he received the Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Citation (condensed): Capture of a Confederate flag at Spotsylvania Court House.
Rounds' Medal of Honor was presented on December 6, 1864, while the Army of the Potomac was near Petersburg. Born on June 7, 1843, in Cattaraugus County, New York, he died on May 1, 1916, at the soldiers' home in Wisconsin and was buried in Wood National Cemetery.
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