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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: November 29, 2008
Caption: The Woodlands-Historic Mansion, Cemetery and Landscape Marker
Additional Description: Sylvester Boonaffon, Jr. Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. He is in Section K, Lot 286. The grave GPS coordinates are N38.9473 W75.2048. MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION: BONNAFFON, SYLVESTER, JR. Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, Company G, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Boydton Plank Road, Va., 27 October 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth:------. Date of issue: 29 September 1893. Citation: Checked the rout and rallied the troops of his command in the face of a terrible fire of musketry; was severely wounded
Submitted: January 18, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p231638
File Size: 3.270 Megabytes

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