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Hack, Lester Goodel

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 17, credited to Salisbury, VT Unit(s): 5th VT INF Service: enl 8/27/61, m/i 9/16/61, PVT, Co. F, 5th VT INF, reen 12/15/63, pr CPL, pr SGT 3/1/65, wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, m/o 6/29/65 (Medal of Honor) See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 01/18/1844, Bolton, NY Death: 04/24/1928 Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, Ticonderoga, NY Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 8289308 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 2/19/1879 Portrait?: Jennifer Snoots College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS Great Grandfather of Robert E. Hack, Beaver Falls, NY (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Mount Hope Cemetery, Ticonderoga, NY Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

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This soldier was awarded the Medal of Honor

Lester Goodel Hack

Rank and Organization: Sergeant, Co. F, 5th Vermont Infantry.
Place and date: Petersburg, VA, 2 Apr 1865.
Entered service at: Salisbury.
Born: 18 Jan 1841, Cadwell, NY
Died: 24 Apr 1928, Copenhagen, NY
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Ticonderoga, NY
Date of Issue: 10 May 1865.
Citation: Capture of flag of 23rd Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A.) with several of the enemy.

Courtesy of Jennifer Snoots

Gravesite photographs courtesy of Heidi McColgan.

NARA File Number: AAK-534-EB-1869.
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