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Medal of Honor
AWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING Civil War
Service: Army
Division: 24th Wisconsin Infantry
GENERAL ORDERS:
Date of Issue: June 30, 1890
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant and Adjutant Arthur MacArthur, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 25 November 1863, while serving with 24th Wisconsin Infantry, in action at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee. First Lieutenant MacArthur seized the Colors of his regiment at a critical moment and planted them on the captured works on the crest of Missionary Ridge.
By the end of the War, at the age of 19, he was commander of his regiment, the 24th Wisconsin, and would ever after be known in Wisconsin as the boy colonel. He would die while speaking at a reunion of his regiment on September 5, 1912. You may have heard of his son Douglas. Together they make one of two father and son teams of Medal of Honor recipients in American history, the other pair being Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
