United States of America
U.S. Army · United States 
John C. Hunterson
1841 – 1927
John C. Hunterson served the U.S. Army. John was 86 years old.
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U.S. Army
Medal of Honor
5 June 1862 · On the Peninsula, Va. · Private, Company B, 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry.
While under fire, between the lines of the 2 armies, voluntarily gave up his own horse to an engineer officer whom he was accompanying on a reconnaissance and whose horse had been killed, thus enabling the officer to escape with valuable papers in his possession.
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For valor
Medal of Honor - Army
While under fire, between the lines of the 2 armies, voluntarily gave up his own horse to an engineer officer whom he was accompanying on a reconnaissance and whose horse had been killed, thus enabling the officer to escape with valuable papers in his possession.
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