The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 5, February 4, 2007, Article 28

1865 MEDAL OF HONOR SAVED FROM WWII SCRAP DRIVE

An article published Friday in the Indianapolis Star told the story
of a rare Medal of Honor, one of 1,520 awarded during the Civil War.
The medal reappeared recently after being saved from a scrap metal
drive collection in World War II.  The current owner is seeking to
return it to the original family.

"Wrapped in a plain cloth bag, a rare piece of Civil War history
passed through Brownsburg Public Library last weekend. Marjorie
Grismore, 78, carefully unwrapped her treasure before the astonished
eyes of Ron Wilkins, a member of the 19th Indiana, Company K,
volunteer re-enactors.

"'Oh my god, that's a Medal of Honor,' he said.

"As he admired the star-shaped medal with the tattered royal blue
ribbon, he read the inscription on the back. In elegant script, it
reads: 'The Congress to Private Major Joseph F. Carter, third
Maryland Volunteers, distinguished gallantry in action at Fort Stedman
March 25, 1865.'

"Grismore wanted more than to just share her antique. She asked Wilkins
if he could help her find out more about Carter, not to fill in the
blanks of her family tree but to return the medal to Carter's heirs.

"Grismore said her father-in-law, Paul Stitt, acquired the medal, along
with a few others from the same family, while collecting scrap metal
during World War II."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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