Captain Charles G. Gould of the 5th Vermont Veteran Volunteers leads his men into the earthworks defended by the 37th North Carolina at Petersburg ,Virginia, April 2, 1865. Immediately beset on all sides, Gould struggled in the darkness to survive. Cut on the head by a sword and bayoneted in both the spine and mouth he managed to kill one assailant and hold off the rest until rescued. For being the first man of the Sixth Corps over the Confederate works on April 2, 1865, Gould was awarded the nation's highest honor, The Congressional Medal of Honor.

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