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Awards Received

  • Medal of Honor

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private

    Division:

    3d Pennsylvania Cavalry

    Action Date:

    June 5, 1862

    Date of Issue: August 2, 1897

    The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private John C. Hunterson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 5 June 1862, while serving with Company B, 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry, in action at On the Peninsula, Virginia. While under fire, between the lines of the two armies, Private Hunterson voluntarily gave up his own horse to an engineer officer whom he was accompanying on a reconnaissance and whose horse had been killed, thus enabling the officer to escape with valuable papers in his possession.