Nathaniel M. Allen
Born: April 29, 1840 at Boston, Massachusetts
Home Town: Boston, Massachusetts
Date of Issue: July 2, 1899
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Nathaniel M. Allen, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 2 July 1863, while serving with Company B, 1st Massachusetts Infantry, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When his regiment was falling back, this soldier, bearing the national color, returned in the face of the enemy’s fire, pulled the regimental flag from under the body of its bearer, who had fallen, saved the flag from capture, and brought both colors off the field.
