The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Freeman C. Thompson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 2 April 1865, while serving with Company F, 116th Ohio Infantry, in action at Petersburg, Virginia. Corporal Thompson was twice knocked from the parapet of Fort Gregg by blows from the enemy muskets but at the third attempt fought his way into the works.