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Service Profile
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal
- Service Era
- American Civil War, Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, Siege of Petersburg
- Medals Recorded
- 1
Samuel E. Lewis
Corporal, U.S. Army
Support & adopt this hero ↓American Civil WarEastern Theater of the American Civil WarSiege of Petersburg
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Biography
Joined an infantry charge and turned captured guns on foes.
amuel E. Lewis was an artilleryman who volunteered to leave the relative familiarity of the guns and join an infantry assault against Petersburg. A corporal in Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, he was one of a small group of artillerymen selected for the attack on 2 April 1865.
Lewis went forward with the storming force, helped capture Confederate guns, and then turned those guns against their former owners. His willingness to join the assault and his conduct after the position fell earned him the Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Citation (condensed)
One of twenty selected artillerymen who voluntarily joined the Petersburg assault, Lewis helped capture enemy guns and turn them against the Confederates.
Lewis was born in 1840 at Coventry, Rhode Island. He died on 22 March 1907 and was buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence.
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