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Service Profile
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private
- Service Era
- American Civil War, Western Theater of the American Civil War, Siege of Vicksburg
- Medals Recorded
- 1
Sampson Harris (Medal of Honor)
Private, U.S. Army
Support & adopt this hero ↓American Civil WarWestern Theater of the American Civil WarSiege of Vicksburg
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Biography
Charged fiercely with a volunteer storming party at a siege.
Sampson Harris was one of the Union volunteers who stepped forward for one of the Civil War's most dangerous assignments: the storming party at Vicksburg. A private in Company K, 30th Ohio Infantry, he volunteered for the assault of 22 May 1863 against the Confederate defenses.
The men of the storming party went forward under intense fire in advance of the main attack. Harris's gallantry as one of those volunteers was recognized with the Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Citation (condensed)
For gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party at Vicksburg on 22 May 1863.
Harris was born in 1841 in Noble County, Ohio. He survived the war and lived for four more decades, dying on 29 October 1905. He was buried in Olive Cemetery at Caldwell, Ohio.
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