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U.S. Army · United States 
Benjamin F. McAlwee
Sergeant
1838 – 1918
Sergeant Benjamin F. McAlwee served the U.S. Army. Benjamin was 80 years old.
Service Record
U.S. Army
Sergeant
Medal of Honor
30 July 1864 · At Petersburg, Va. · Sergeant, Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry.
Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.
Awards & Decorations
1
For valor
Medal of Honor - Army
Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.
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