The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant George Washington Brush, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 24 May 1864, while serving with Company B, 34th Colored Infantry, in action at Ashepoo River, South Carolina. Second Lieutenant Brush voluntarily commanded a boat crew, which went to the rescue of a large number of Union soldiers on board the stranded steamer Boston, and with great gallantry succeeded in conveying them to shore, being exposed during the entire time to heavy fire from a Confederate battery.