OLIVER PERCY ROOD MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL MARKER
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Listing Details
Year Dedicated: 2006
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: TEAMOHE
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Oliver P. Rood, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 3 July 1863, while serving with Company B, 20th Indiana Infantry, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for capture of flag of 21st North Carolina Infantry (Confederate States of America).
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