Richard Willis Dewitt
Medal of Honor
U.S. Army
American Civil War
Date of Issue: August 10, 1894
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Richard Willis Dewitt, United States Army, for gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863, while serving with Company D, 47th Ohio Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
