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Sampson
Lane
Faison

Sampson Faison graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1883. He fought in the Apache Campaigns in the West, and in the Philippine Islands during the Insurrecto n. He earned a Distinguished Service Cross in World War I. He twice commander the 30th Infantry Division as retired in 1922 as a U.S. Army Brigadier General.

Awards Received

  • Army Distinguished Service Medal

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Brigadier General

    Regiment:

    60th Infantry Brigade

    Division:

    30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    World War I
    War Department, General Orders No. 59 (1919)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General Sampson Lane Faison, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. General Faison commanded with great credit the 60th Infantry Brigade, 30th Division, in the breaking of the enemy’s Hindenburg line at Bellicourt, France, and in subsequent operations in which important captures were made, all marking him as a military commander of great energy and determination.