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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: September 16, 2000
Caption: Cpl. Clinton Greaves (1855-1906) Medal of Honor Grave Marker
Additional Description: He is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus OH, Section 27, Lot 88-Grave GPS Coordinates N39.9393 W83.0362. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: GREAVES, CLINTON • Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry • Place and date: At Florida Mountains, N. Mex., 24 January 1877 • Entered service at: Prince Georges County, Md. • Date of issue: 26 June 1879 Citation: While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free.
Submitted: June 28, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p386999
File Size: 0.057 Megabytes

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