Place of Birth: Philadelphia. Date of Issue: November 3, 1896. Citation: The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private William H. Paul, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on September 17, 1862, while serving with Company E, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry, in action at Antietam, Maryland. Under a most withering and concentrated fire, Private Paul voluntarily picked up the colors of his regiment, when the bearer and two of the color guards had been killed, and bore them aloft throughout the entire battle. See also List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P Maryland in the American Civil War Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Reconstruction era References External links Gasbarro, Norman. “Monuments at Gettysburg – 90th Pennsylvania Infantry”. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: PA Historian, January 13, 2015. Welker, David A. “The 90th Pennsylvania Infantry in the Cornfield: ‘Solitary and alone, we gave and took our medicine’”. Virginia: Antietam’s Cornfield, June 18, 2016. “William H. Paul” (memorial with photographs and gravesite information). Salt Lake City, Utah: Find A Grave, retrieved online September 25, 2018. 1844 births 1911 deaths American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor Military personnel from Philadelphia People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Union Army soldiers United States Army Medal of Honor recipients