Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon

Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon of the 10th Vermont Infantry, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division under Seymour, Sixth Corps, was a resident of Newbury, Vermont, who enlisted in August 1862. During the attack on April 2, 1865, his regiment struck the Confederate trenches about 300 yards southwest of this position, and he recalled that they immediately mounted and entered the works over the most accessible passages, becoming the first to enter the entrenchments on their own front and taking a number of prisoners, who were sent to the rear without guard because he thought it imprudent to spare any men for that purpose. For gallantry during the Breakthrough, he received an honorary promotion to colonel and was mustered out of service in June 1865.

Virginia · United States