The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Captain William Donaldson Dickey, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 17 June 1864, while serving with Battery M, 15th New York Heavy Artillery, in action at Petersburg, Virginia. Captain Dickey refused to leave the field, remaining in command after being wounded by a piece of shell, and led his command in the assault on the enemy’s works on the following day.