The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Leonidas H. Inscho, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 14 September 1862, while serving with Company E, 12th Ohio Infantry, in action at South Mountain, Maryland. Alone and unaided and with his left hand disabled, Corporal Inscho captured a Confederate captain and four men.