DAVIS, GEORGE E. - Medal of Honor Recipient


Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, Company D, 10th Vermont Infantry.
Place and date:   At Monocacy, Md., 9 July 1864.

Entered service at:   Burlington, Vt.

Birth:   Dunstable, Mass.

Date of issue:   27 May 1892.

Citation:   While in command of a small force, held the approaches to the 2 bridges against repeated assaults of superior numbers, thereby materially delaying Early's advance on Washington.

This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)