Henry F. Frizzell

Henry F. Frizzell (December 1839 – May 1904) was a

Biography

Two months into his service with the Missouri Infantry he contracted the

Frizzell was captured by the Confederacy that day. A week later he was released by the Confederacy in a prisoner exchange and spent the next two months in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Later in 1863, his unit joined the ranks of General William Tecumseh Sherman and fought in the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. After re-enlisting in January 1864, Frizzell and the 6th Missouri infantry joined General Sherman on his march through Georgia. Frizzell was shot in the left knee on May 14, 1864, at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia. He continued fighting until Lynch Creek, North Carolina, where the Confederates again captured him on March 1, 1865. After escaping, he heard the war was over and, in his own words, "he started working his way back to Madison County as best he could."

Frizzell made it back to Madison County, eventually getting married and having children. He died in 1904 at the age of 67. He is buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery Saint Ann, Missouri.^[1]

Medal of Honor citation

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Henry F. Frizzell, United States Army, for gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863, while serving with Company B, 6th Missouri Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Later Recognition

On April 9, 2010, the Missouri Department of Transportation held a Bridge Dedication Ceremony to rename a bridge on Route 72 over the St. Francis River in Madison County in honor of Frizzell, who lived nearby in the Roselle Community.^[2]

See also

• List of Medal of Honor recipients
• List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F

Notes

References

• "Civil War Medal of Honor recipients (A-L)". Medal of Honor citations. United States Army Center of Military History. August 6, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2010.