The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Assistant Surgeon Joseph Kirby Corson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 14 October 1863, while serving with 35th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves, in action at Bristoe Station, Virginia. With one companion Assistant Surgeon Corson returned in the face of the enemy’s heavy artillery fire and removed to a place of safety a severely wounded soldier who had been left behind as the regiment fell back.