Chapter 221. To award the medal of honor to Major John O
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CHAP. 221.— An Act To award the medal of honor to Major John O. Skinner, surgeon, United States Army, retired.March 4, 1915.[[S. 2789](/us/bill/63/s/2789).][[Private, No. 265](/us/pvtl/63/265).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President be, and Major John O. Skinner.Army medal of honor awarded to.he is hereby, authorized to award the medal of honor to Major John O. Skinner, surgeon, United States Army, retired, for gallantry in action while serving as an acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, in having rescued a wounded soldier who lay under a close and heavy fire during the assault on the Modoc stronghold during the battle of January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in the Lava Beds, Oregon, after two soldiers had unsuccessfully attempted to make the rescue and both had been wounded in doing so.
Approved, March 4, 1915.