Medal of Honor Certificate, Sgt. Hiram Williams Pursell, 1894: Bucks Co This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Helen Marie More. HMore@compuserve.com or visit http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/HMore/ USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. _________________________________________________________________ Sgt. Hiram Williams Pursell 104th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Medal of Honor Certificate No. 13 To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Hiram W. Pursell was enrolled on the Sixteenth day of September 1861, to serve during the war, and was discharged on the Thirtieth day of September 1864, by reason of muster out of company while holding the grade of Sergeant, in Company G, 104 Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers; that a Medal of Honor was awarded to him on the Twelfth day of May 1894, for distinguished gallantry at the Battle of Fair Oaks, VA on May 31, 1862. Being a bearer of one of the regimental flags when his regiment was on the retreat, Sergeant Pursell returned in the face of the advancing enemy with his own flag in his hand and saved the other regimental flag which would otherwise have been captured; that his name was entered and recorded on the Army and Navy Medal of Honor Roll on the Fourth day of May 1916, as authorized under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1916 and that he is entitled to receive the special pension granted by that Act. Given at the War Department, Washington, D.C., this Fifteenth day of May, 1916. By authority of the Secretary of War: W.P. McCain, The Adjutant General.