and the rest of the 5th Regiment were mustered out on September 20, 1865, in Carolina City. Bronson died at age 45 or 46 and was buried in Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company D, 5th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and date: At Chapins Farm, Va., September 29, 1864. Entered service at: Delaware County, Ohio. Birth: Indiana County, Pa. Date of issue: April 6, 1865. Citation: Took command of his company, all the officers having been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it. See also List of African American Medal of Honor recipients List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls, Uncommon valor : a story of race, patriotism, and glory in the final battles of the Civil War, (Wiley, 2006) () Notes References External links 1838 births 1884 deaths African Americans in the American Civil War 19th-century American slaves United States Army Medal of Honor recipients Union Army soldiers People from Indiana County, Pennsylvania People from Trumbull County, Ohio American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor