Captain Albert D. Wright of Eustis entered the Union Army on August 15, 1862, was mustered in as a sergeant in Company A, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, transferred on April 20, 1864 to the 43rd United States Colored Troops, and commissioned a captain. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia, on July 30, 1864, after Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants's mining operation placed 320 kegs of gunpowder totaling 8,000 pounds in a tunnel beneath Confederate lines, creating an explosion that killed 250-350 Confederate soldiers instantly. Captain Wright led his Black troops around the crater, advanced beyond the enemy line, captured a stand of colors and its color guard, and was severely wounded. The battle left 865 killed and 5,289 total casualties, and the stalemate continued for another eight months. Wright later worked in the citrus industry, died on February 15, 1926 at age 83, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Eustis. Private Robert M. McTureous, Jr. of Altoona received the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Okinawa in the Ryukyu chain on June 7, 1945, when, after his company seized an important hill, he attacked enemy-occupied caves with grenades to protect stretcher bearers under machine-gun fire, returned through heavy fire to replenish his grenades, neutralized the enemy fire, killed six Japanese soldiers, and disorganized the remaining defenders before crawling 200 yards to friendly lines despite serious wounds. He died on June 11, 1945 and was buried at Glendale Cemetery in Umatilla. In that 82-day battle, more than 13,000 were killed and 36,000 wounded. Staff Sergeant Hammett L. Bowen, Jr. of Ocala, serving with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 25th Division in the Republic of Vietnam, received the Medal of Honor after his platoon came under ambush fire during a reconnaissance mission in Binh Duong Providence. He laid down suppressive fire, ordered his men to fall back, and then threw himself on a grenade that landed among him and three of his men, absorbing the explosion with his body and saving their lives. Bowen died on June 27, 1969 at age 21, was buried in La Grange, Georgia, and a Marion County grade school was named in his honor.