Volume 45
Private Law 70–391
Authorizing the Secretary of War to award a duplicate Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel William J. Sperry.
Approved April 20, 1928
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing the Secretary of War to award a duplicate Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel William J. Sperry.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a duplicate Congressional Medal of Honor to William J. Sperry, late lieutenant colonel, Sixth Vermont Infantry, Civil War, who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for most distinguished
To be presented to officer’s widow.
gallantry at Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865; and that the duplicate medal be presented to the widow of the above-mentioned officer.
Approved, April 20, 1928.