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Lyon, Frederick A.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 19, credited to Burlington, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 12/31/62, m/i 2/9/63, PVT, Co. A, 1st VT CAV, pr CPL 7/1/64, pr SGT 11/1/64, tr to Co. B 6/21/65, m/o 8/9/65 (Medal of Honor)
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VITALS
Birth: 07/25/1843, Williamsburg, MA
Death: 09/23/1911
Burial: Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, MI
Marker/Plot: GAR Lot
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 7938123
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: None
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BURIAL:
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Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, MI
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This soldier was awarded the Medal of Honor Frederick A. Lyon
Rank and Organization: Corporal, Co. A, 1st Vermont Cavalry.
Place and date: Cedar Creek, VA, 19 Oct 1864.
Entered service at: Burlington.
Born: 25 Jul 1843, Williamsburg, MA
Died: 23 Sep 1911, Jackson,MI
Buried: Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, MI
Date of Issue: 26 Nov 1864.
Citation: With 1 companion, captured the flag of a Confederate regiment, 3 officers, and an ambulance with its mules and driver.Obituary
The Daily Review (Decatur, IL)
Tuesday - 26 Sep 1911
Civil War Hero Found Dead
Jackson, Mich., Sept. 26 - Fred A. Lyon, corporal in Co. A, First Vermont cavalry, in the civil war, was found dead in a rooming house here yesterday.
Lyon possessed a silver medal voted him by congress and presented to him at the White House by President Abraham Lincoln, for heroism at the battle of Cedar Creek, where he captured Major General Ramseur of the confederate army.
Contributed by Erik Hinckley.
See also: Beyer and Keydel, 447.
NARA File Number: R&P 506308.
