Isaac Gause

Citation for Congressional Medal of Honor

by Seymour "Sy" Brody


CIVIL WAR

Rank and organization: Corporal, Company E, 2nd Ohio Cavalry
Place and date: Near Berryville, Virginia, 13 September, 1864
Birth: Trumbull County, Ohio
Date of issue: 19 September, 1864

CITATION

In hand-to-hand combat while on a reconnaissance along the Berryville and Winchester Pike, he captured the colors of the Confederate Army's 8th South Carolina Infantry.


Source: Jewish Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.