Medal of Honor Action Place: Mason's Hill, Virginia, USA
Citation
Having been surprised and captured by a detachment of guerrillas, this soldier, with other prisoners, seized the arms of the guard over them, killed two of the guerrillas, and enabled all the prisoners to escape.
Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Traynor
Additional Details
Accredited to: Rome, Oneida County, New York
Awarded Posthumously: No
Presentation Date & Details: September 28, 1897
Born: February 9, 1843, Newark, Essex County, NJ, United States
Died: July 6, 1920, Omaha, NE, United States
Buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery (10-219-5), Omaha, NE, United States