Sergeant John E. Buffington

Sergeant John Ezra Buffington of Carroll County, Maryland, served in the 6th Maryland Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division under Seymour, Sixth Corps, after enlisting in August 1862. During the attack on April 2, 1865, he and five other men of his regiment stormed the ramparts of the Confederate works near this position. After the battle, the commander of the brigade that included the 6th Maryland wrote that, after a full investigation into who was first from the brigade to enter the works, he was fully satisfied that Sergeant John E. Buffington of Company C, 6th Maryland Volunteers, was the first man to pass over the works. On March 4, 1908, Buffington received the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in carrying the lines of the enemy at Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865.

Virginia · United States