The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Henry D. O’Brien, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 3 July 1863, while serving with Company E, 1st Minnesota Infantry, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Taking up the colors where they had fallen, Corporal O’Brien rushed ahead of his regiment, close to the muzzles of the enemy’s guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time.