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Service Profile
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Service Era
- American Civil War, Appomattox Campaign
- Medals Recorded
- 1
Awards & Decorations
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Biography
Captured the flag of a rebel gunboat during a swift advance.
Near Jetersville, Virginia, Morgan D. Lane captured the flag of the Confederate gunboat Nansemond during the closing days of the Civil War.
Born in Monroe, New York, in 1844, Lane served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a private at the time of his Medal of Honor action. On April 6, 1865, during the Appomattox Campaign, he seized Nansemond's flag. The Medal of Honor was presented to him on March 16, 1866.
Medal of Honor Citation: Capture of flag of gunboat Nansemond.
Lane died in Atchison, Kansas, on July 19, 1892, and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery there.
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