More details of this action were later written in Private Conaway’s own hand stating, “(I) received gun shot wound in the engagement that disabled me for life.”
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More details of this action were later written in Private Conaway’s own hand stating, “(I) received gun shot wound in the engagement that disabled me for life.”
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The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private John Wesley Conaway, United States Army, for gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863, while serving with Company C, 83d Indiana Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi.