The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major & Aide-de-Camp Henry Edwin Tremain, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 15 May 1864, while serving with U.S. Volunteers, in action at Resaca, Georgia. Major Tremain voluntarily rode between the lines while two brigades of Union troops were firing into each other and stopped the firing.