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U.S. Army · United States 
Nicholas S. Boquet
Private
1842
Private Nicholas S. Boquet served the U.S. Army.
Service Record
U.S. Army
Private
Medal of Honor
10 August 1861 · At Wilsons Creek, Mo. · Private, Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry.
Voluntarily left the line of battle, and, exposing himself to imminent danger from a heavy fire of the enemy, assisted in capturing a riderless horse at large between the lines and hitching him to a disabled gun, saved the gun from capture.
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For valor
Medal of Honor - Army
Voluntarily left the line of battle, and, exposing himself to imminent danger from a heavy fire of the enemy, assisted in capturing a riderless horse at large between the lines and hitching him to a disabled gun, saved the gun from capture.
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