James H Bronson (1838 - 1884)

Born 1838 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 16 Mar 1884 at about age 46 in Carnegie, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

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James Bronson was awarded the Medal of Honor.

First Sergeant James Bronson served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1863
Mustered out: 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 5th Regiment United States Colored Troops

James H. Bronson (1838 – March 16, 1884) was an African American Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company D, 5th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and date: At Chapins Farm, Va., September 29, 1864. Entered service at: Delaware County, Ohio. Birth: Indiana County, Pa. Date of issue: April 6, 1865. Citation: Took command of his company, all the officers having been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Civil War Medal of Honor recipients (A-L)". Medal of Honor citations. United States Army Center of Military History. August 6, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Bronson
• Hanna, Charles W. (2002). African American recipients of the Medal of Honor: a biographical dictionary, Civil War through Vietnam War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. pp. 20–21, 43. ISBN 0-7864-1355-7.
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 18 March 2021), memorial page for 1SGT James H. Bronson (1838–16 Mar 1884), Find A Grave: Memorial #7218078, citing Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4HJ-T77 : 22 December 2020), James Bronson in household of Hannah Bronson, Black Lick Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXPB-4QX : 18 February 2021), James Brunston in entry for John Brunston, 1860.

See also:

• Company D of the 5th Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry