Medal of Honor
Corporal Clinton Greaves
Unit:
Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry
Place of Birth:
Madison County VA
Entered Service:
Prince Georges County MD
Date and place of action:
24 January 1877 at Florida Mountains NM
Citation issued:
26 June 1879
Citation:
While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians
to surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the
savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the
swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free. Click
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