Nicholas S. Bouquet
Born: November 14, 1842 at Landau, Bavaria, Germany
Home Town: Burlington, Iowa
Date of Issue: February 16, 1897
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Nicholas S. Bouquet, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 10 August 1861, while serving with Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry, in action at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri. Private Bouquet voluntarily left the line of battle, and, exposing himself to imminent danger from a heavy fire of the enemy, assisted in capturing a rider less horse at large between the lines and hitching him to a disabled gun, saved the gun from capture.
