Welcome to the third in the series.  This time let me introduce you to one of two members of the 1st New York Dragoons to receive the Medal of Honor for this action.

Andrew J. Lorish

Lorish joined the 1st New York Dragoons from Attica, New York in August 1862. He was promoted to regimental sergeant major the next month but demoted to private before the end of the year. In October 1863 he became the regimental commissary sergeant. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in May 1865 and mustered out with his regiment in June.

His citation for winning the medal reads

Amid the enemy, he grabbed the flag from a color bearer who then called for help. When the bearer's comrades were readying their rifles he dashed directly at them securing their disarming. As he rode away, the Confederates picked up their guns firing at the captor of their flag.

The flag that was captured by Bowen and another solider was a CSA second national flag belonging to an unidentified unit in Col George S. Patton's Virginia Infantry Brigade. The flag is now in the possession of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

Picture from the Museum below.