Reams Station was connected to several Medal of Honor actions during the Civil War. At the First Battle of Reams Station, Capt. Edward Whitaker of the 1st Connecticut Cavalry, serving as an aide to Gen. James Wilson, carried a dispatch through Confederate lines to Union headquarters and was awarded the Medal of Honor for that action on April 2, 1898. During the Second Battle of Reams Station, Confederates drove away gunners from a cannon across the railroad at modern Halifax Road, and after his horse was shot from under him, Pvt. Patrick J. Ginley crept to the gun, loaded and fired three charges of canister into Confederates about to seize the works, escaped capture, then took the flag of a Massachusetts regiment from a dead color bearer and led a charge that recaptured the battery's other three guns, earning the Medal of Honor. In the same battle, Chief Bugler Ferdinand Frederick Rohm of the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry rescued the badly wounded Col. James Beaver from a road where cavalry horses threatened to trample him and helped save his life, for which Rohm received the Medal of Honor; Beaver later became governor of Pennsylvania. Capt. James Milton Pipes led his company of the 140th Pennsylvania Infantry to stop a Confederate flank movement, was wounded, and lost his right arm, and his quick response there along with his rescue of a wounded comrade at Gettysburg the previous year were cited in his Medal of Honor. Pvt. Terrence Begley of the 7th New York Heavy Artillery was killed at the Second Battle of Reams Station and later received the Medal of Honor posthumously on December 1, 1864, for his actions at the Battle of Cold Harbor.