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The William McKinley Monument at Anteitam:

The inscription reads: "Sergeant McKinley Co. E. 23rd Ohio Vol. Infantry, while in charge of the Commissary Department, on the afternoon of the day of the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, personally and without orders served "hot coffee" and "warm food" to every man in the Regiment, on this spot and in doing so had to pass under fire."

Since this was the bloodiest day in American military history, it was quite something for a man safely in the trains to go up to the fighting on his own initiative. He didn't get a medal, but did get a battlefield commission.

[NKP_Vet]

Would love to one day visit the battlefield.

Deo Vindice

GG Grandson of Duncan Black
15 NC Infantry
1843 to 1921

[SunkenCiv]

Serving food and drink while under fire is not everyone’s cu-, uh, never mind...