The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant Charles Dearborne Copp, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 13 December 1862, while serving with Company C, 9th New Hampshire Infantry, in action at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Second Lieutenant Copp seized the regimental colors, the Color Bearer having been shot down, and, waving them, rallied the regiment under a heavy fire.