Call to arms. The medal of honor. History of the medal -- Design of the medal -- Standards for the consideration -- Medal recipients of the Civil War -- Iowa's Civil War medal recipients -- Capturing a train: William Henry Harrison Reddick -- Capturing the generals: James Dunlavy ; Calvary Morris Young -- Saving the cannon: Peter T. Anderson ; Orson W. Bennett ; Nicholas S. Bouquet -- Standards and colors. Capturing the enemy's flag : Falling Waters, Maryland, July 14, 1863: Charles M. Holton -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864: Charles L. Russell -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Nashville, Tennessee, December 15 and 16, 1864: Thomas Parke Gere ; Luther P. Kaltenbach ; William C. May ; Andrew J. Sloan ; George W. Welch -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Selma, Alabama, April 2, 1865: Nicholas Fanning ; James P. Miller ; Charles A. Swan -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Spanish Fort, Alabama, March 27- April 8, 1865: Edgar A. Bras -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Fort Blakely, Alabama, April 9, 1865: Joseph Stickels ; John W. Whitmore -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865: John P. Donaldson -- Capturing the enemy's flag : Columbus, Georgia, April 16, 1865: Norman Francis Bates ; Edward James Bebb ; Richard H. Cosgriff ; John Henry Hays ; Richard H. Morgan ; Horatio Latin Birdsall ; Andrew W. Tibbets -- Protecting the colors: James Drury ; James M. Elson ; Voltaire Paine Twombly ; Unto their own: Pitt B. Herington & William B. Mayes ; Albert W. Power ; Henry Irving Smith ; Dr. Mary Edwards Walker -- Valor at Vicksburg. Champion Hill: James Hill -- Vicksburg assaults: James Kephart -- The volunteer storming party: William Campbell ; Andrew E. Goldsbery -- Other volunteered valor: Leonidas Mahlon Godley -- Running the batteries: Henry C. Peters -- The aftermath : siege and surrender -- Unusual acts of valor: Luman L. Cadwell ; James N. Strong ; John Vale ; Byron E. Pay ; Irwin Shepard ; James Daniel Gardiner ; George Washington Healey ; Edward B. Spalding ; Andrew Traynor -- Exceptional leadership: Charles A. Clark ; Lewis Addison Grant ; Francis Jay Herron ; Milton T. Russell ; James Alexander Williamson -- Valor on the high seas: George W. McWilliams ; John C. Hayes -- Healing a nation.
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