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U.S. Army · United States 
Dewitt C. Lewis
Captain
1822 – 1899
Captain Dewitt C. Lewis served the U.S. Army. Dewitt was 76 years old.
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U.S. Army
Captain
Medal of Honor
16 June 1862 · At Secessionville, S.C. · Captain, Company F, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry.
While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of can1ster shot at short range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.
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For valor
Medal of Honor - Army
While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of can1ster shot at short range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.
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