CHASE, JOHN F.
Rank and Organization: Private, 5th Battery, Maine Light Artillery. Place and
Date: At Chancellorsville, Va., 3 May 1863. Entered Service At: Augusta, Maine.
Birth: Chelsea, Maine. Date of Issue: 7 February 1888.
Citation:
Nearly all the officers and men of the battery having been killed or wounded, this
soldier with a comrade continued to fire his gun after the guns had ceased. The piece was
then dragged off by the two, the horses having been shot, and its capture by the enemy was
prevented.