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Awards Received

  • Medal of Honor

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

    Division:

    Indiana Light Artillery

    Action Date:

    September 15, 1862

    Date of Issue: November 2, 1896

    The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Second Lieutenant Frederick W. Fout, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 15 September 1862, while serving with Battery 15, Indiana Light Artillery, in action at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Second Lieutenant Fout voluntarily gathered the men of the battery together, re-manned the guns, which had been ordered abandoned by an officer, opened fire, and kept up the same on the enemy until after the surrender.