Ulysses G. Buzzard

He rescued wounded comrades under deadly enemy fire in Cuba.

Ulysses Grant Buzzard was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on January 31, 1865. He entered the United States Army from Pittsburgh and served in Company C, Seventeenth Infantry. His career took him to Cuba and the Philippines.

On July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the Seventeenth Infantry fought at El Caney. Buzzard helped bring wounded soldiers back from exposed ground under heavy enemy fire. The regimental history places him among the men who went forward to recover their wounded commander, Lieutenant Colonel William Haskell. His Medal of Honor was issued on June 24, 1899.

Buzzard continued serving in the Philippines and attained the rank of sergeant. He retired there in December 1911 and remained in the islands. He married Enrica and settled in Cebu, where a later Veterans of Foreign Wars post preserved an attributed family photograph.

He died in the Philippines on August 2, 1939, aged seventy-four, and was buried in the American veterans' section of San Nicolas Cemetery in Cebu City. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 12130, chartered in Cebu in 2013, was named in his honor.

Medal of Honor citation

Gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines and under heavy fire from the enemy.