Edward M. Knox


Edward M. Knox was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
Knox was born in New York on February 12, 1842. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism on July 2, 1863, while serving as a Second Lieutenant with the 15th New York Battery Light Artillery, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His Medal of Honor was issued on October 18, 1892.
He died at the age of 74, on March 28, 1916 and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.

Medal of Honor citation