John Milton Deane

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major John Milton Deane, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 25 March 1865, while serving with 29th Massachusetts Infantry, in action at Fort Stedman, Virginia. Major Deane, observing an abandoned gun within Fort Haskell, called for volunteers, and under a heavy fire, worked the gun until the enemy’s advancing line was routed.