O'BRIEN, HENRY D.
Rank and Organization: Corporal, Company E, 1st Minnesota Infantry. Place and
Date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July 1863. Entered Service At: St. Anthony Falls,
Minn. Birth: Maine. Date Of Issue: 9 April 1890.
Citation:
Taking up the colors where they had fallen, he rushed ahead of his regiment, close to
the muzzles of the enemy's guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy
was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time.