Captured The Flag

Union Captain Thomas J Box was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions May 14^th 1864 at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia.

Thomas J Box was born November 7^th 1833 in Indiana.

Box was a Captain in Company D of the 27^th Indiana on May 14^th 1864, when during the Battle of Resaca he captured the flag of the 38th Alabama.  The Battle of Resaca was fought from May 13^th through 16^th 1864.  Box was one of eight men who earned the Medal of Honor during the action.

Box died December 18^th1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is buried in the Green Hill Cemetery in Bedford, Lawrence, Indiana.