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This selection is from The Badge of
Gallantry by Lt. Col. Joseph P. Mitchell. It is
a book on Civil War veterans who won the Medal of
Honor.
The Badge of Gallantry
A long letter came from a member of the 2nd
brigade, 3rd Division, Eighteenth Corps. By
coincidence, Milton M. Holland, 5th United States
Colored Troops, had also been a sergeant major,
the highest rank that a Negro could then
officially attain in the United States Army.
The letter gives an account of his entire
service but, in describing the action at
Chaffin's Farm, it is not too specific as to his
own part. Milton Holland preferred to dwell
instead upon the valor of the entire regiment.
His personal citation was for taking command of
Company C when the other offficers had been
killed or wounded.
"Milton M. Holland was born in the state of
Texas in 1844. He was attending school in Athens
County, Ohio, in 1861 when the first call was
made for volunteer soldiers, and respond to the
call of his country. He enlisted in the Union
Army in April, 1861, but was rejected on account
of his youth. But so determined was he to serve
his country that he immediately sought employment
in the Quartermaster Department and served under
Colonel Nelson H. Van Vorhes of the 3rd, 18th,
and 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
"He served in this capacity until he was
regularly mustered into the Union Army in June,
1863 and assigned' to the 5th United States
Colored Troops, a regiment raised in Ohio and
accredited to that state. With his regiment he
engaged in the campaigns in Virginia and North
Carolina under the command of General B.F.
Butler. In the winter of 1863 he was with his
regiment in the raid through the Dismal Swamp
into North Carolina, capturing forage and
emancipating slaves under the then recent
Emancipation Proclamation.
"In the early winter and spring of 1864, he
was with his regiment in the two raids from18
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