Henry Heller

Citation for Congressional Medal of Honor

by Seymour "Sy" Brody

CIVIL WAR

Rank and organization:	Sergeant, Company A, 66th Ohio Infantry
Place and date:	Chancellorsville, Virginia, 2 May, 1863
Entered Service at:	Urbana, Ohio
Date of issue:	29 July, 1892

CITATION

In the Battle of Chancellorsville, he was one of a party of four under heavy fire. They voluntarily crossed the enemy lines to capture and bring back to the Union lines a wounded Confederate officer from whom valuable information was obtained concerning the position of the enemy.

Source: Jewish Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.