Hi Wes, Good job! Here's the US Military site for MOH winners, listing Edward Rat(c)liff Awarded 29 September 1864 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohb.htm U.S. Army Center of Military History Full-text Listings of Medal of Honor Citations (see below) If you find anything, sure would love to hear about it. Perhaps we could do something for his grave. Barry Wetherington, Gs/o Ethel Ella (Ratliff) Wetherington --------------------------------- The President, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration's creation in 1861. For years, the citations highlighting these acts of bravery and heroism resided in dusty archives and only sporadically were printed. In 1973, the U.S. Senate ordered the citations compiled and printed as Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973). This book was later updated and reprinted in 1979. The breakdown of these is a duplicate of that in the congressional compilation. Likewise, some minor misspelling and other errors are duplicated from the official government volume. These likely were the result of the original transcriptions. The following is an index of the full-text files by war. ---------------------------- Full-Text Citations Civil War (A-L) Civil War (M-Z) Indian War Campaigns Interim 1866-1870 1871 Korean Campaign Interim 1871-1898 War with Spain Philippine Insurrection China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion) Interim 1901-1911 Action Against Outlaws--Philippines 1911 Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz) Haiti 1915 Interim 1915-16 Dominican Campaign World War I Haiti Campaign 1919-1920 Second Nicaraguan Campaign Interim 1920-1940 World War II Black Medal of Honor Recipients World War II (A-F) World War II (G-L) World War II (M-S) World War II (T-Z) Korean War Vietnam (A-L) Vietnam (M-Z) Somalia Special Legislation Additional Information Medal of Honor Statistics A Brief History of the Medal of Honor DOD Medal of Honor Bibliography World War II Black Medal of Honor Recipients Asian-Pacific Americans Receive Medals of Honor =================================== Full-Text Citations Civil War (A-L) Civil War (M-Z) RATCLIFF, EDWARD Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company C, 38th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and date: At Chapins Farm, Va., 29 September 1864. Entered service at: ------. Birth: James County, Va. Date of issue: 6 April 1865. Citation. Commanded and gallantly led his company after the commanding officer had been killed; was the first enlisted man to enter the enemy's works. =================================== From: wilson1@ccsinc.com Reply-To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [RATLIFF] information on Edward Ratliff Date: 5 Mar 2002 16:15:03 -0700 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGCBAEB/889 Message Board Post: Attempting to identify an unmarked grave for : Sargeant Edward Ratliff 38th Regiment US Colored Troops Civil War. MEDAL OF HONOR recipient. Died in Nelson County VA March 10 1915. Buried (grave unmarked or no longer marked) in Chescake Cemetery Navel Weapons Station Lackey Virginia ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== If you'd like to search the List archives, please visit http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=RATLIFF _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com