O'CONNOR, ALBERT
Rank and Organization: Sergeant, Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry. Place and
Date: At Gravelly Run, Va., 31 March and 1 April 1865. Entered Service At: West
Point Township, Columbia County, Wis. Birth: Canada. Date Of Issue: Unknown.
Citation:
On 31 March 1865, with a comrade, recaptured a Union officer from a detachment of 9
Confederates, capturing 3 of the detachment and dispersing the remainder, and on 1 April
1865, seized a stand of Confederate colors, killing a Confederate officer in a
hand-to-hand contest over the colors and retaining the colors until surrounded by
Confederates and compelled to relinquish them.
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