The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant John Snyders Kenyon, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 15 May 1862, while serving with Company D, 3d New York Cavalry, in action at Trenton, North Carolina. Sergeant Kenyon voluntarily left a retiring column, returned in face of the enemy’s fire, helped a wounded man upon a horse, and so enable him to escape capture or death.