{"id":128126,"date":"2022-07-22T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128126"},"modified":"2022-07-21T23:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:06:51","slug":"valor-friday-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128126","title":{"rendered":"Valor Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major General George Lewis Gillespie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Family duties have me away from the keyboard more than normal as of late. Therefore I have to phone in this week’s Valor Friday post. I’ve stumbled across an article that does General Gillespie as much justice as I could do myself.<\/p>\n

Gillespie earned the Medal of Honor for heroics in carrying dispatches through heavy fire during the Civil War. During his ride he was captured, escape, was surrounded and nearly captured again, and escaped once more. True gallantry in action. He made the Army a career for the next 38 years, rising to the rank of Major General. Along the way he redesigned the Medal of Honor. After the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic (a Union veterans organization) used a similar looking medal to the Medal of Honor for their membership badge. Gillespie’s 1904 revision of the Army MoH removed such confusion.<\/p>\n

The United States Patent and Trademark Office<\/a> has the story;<\/p>\n

On May 31, 1864, George Gillespie Jr. escaped capture twice while he dashed through enemy lines under fire, carrying vital information from a commanding officer. This courageous act placed Gillespie in one of the most exclusive groups in American history: recipients of the Medal of Honor. Forty years after serving in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, Gillespie led the effort to update the medal\u2019s appearance. His design, which he patented in 1904, soon took center stage in a national conversation about the value and meaning of the medal, today this country\u2019s highest honor for acts of valor in combat.<\/p>\n

Gillespie was born in Kingston, Tennessee, on October 7, 1841, to George Lewis and Margaret Gillespie. Young George was one of at least four children, supported by his father\u2019s earnings as a merchant and a farmer and his mother\u2019s labor in the home. Little is known about Gillespie until he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1858.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much, much more at the source. They also include a lot of pictures of period pieces to help tell the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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