FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — A crisply folded American flag on Saturday connected through the ages the memory of U.S. Army soldier John F. Rowalt to his living descendants — 148 years after his death. “On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Army and a grateful nation, please accept this flag […]
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GALLERY: Medal of Honor recipient from Richland County honored in Kentucky
Photos from a graveside military honors ceremony in Fort Mitchell, Ky., on Saturday to honor Bellville native John F. Rowalt, who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1869 as a U.S. Army private fighting in the Indian Campaigns in Arizona. He died of smallpox in 1875 and had been buried in an unmarked grave […]
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Bellville Medal of Honor recipient’s grave to get marker on Nov. 4
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — John Rowalt is buried about 174 miles away from where he was born in Bellville — in an unmarked grave near Fort Mitchell, Ky. That 148-year indignity for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient will be resolved on Nov. 4. A Medal of Honor headstone marker will be placed on the […]