BEECH, JOHN P. - Medal of Honor Recipient


Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company B, 4th New Jersey Infantry.
Place and date:   At Spotsylvania Courthouse, Va., 12 May 1864. Entered service at: Trenton, N.J. Born: 1 May 1844, England.

Date of issue:   5 June 1894.

Citation:   Voluntarily assisted in working the guns of a battery, all the members of which had been killed or wounded.

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)