Squire E. Howard Explained

Squire E. Howard
Birth Date:15 May 1840
Birth Place:Jamaica, Vermont
Death Place:West Newton, Massachusetts
Placeofburial Label:Place of burial
Placeofburial:Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts
Allegiance: United States of America
Union
Branch:
Union Army
Rank: Captain
Unit: Company H, 8th Vermont Infantry
Awards: Medal of Honor

Squire Edward Howard (May 15, 1840 – November 26, 1912) was a Medal of Honor recipient who served for the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Civil War

Howard enlisted into in Company H of the 8th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment. a three-year infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Union Army at Townshend, Vermont, as a sergeant. Shortly after arrival in New Orleans, he was promoted to First Sergeant of his company. First Sergeant Howard was wounded in the his regiment's baptism of fire in the ambush at Bayou Des Allemands train station on September 22, 1862 where despite his wounds he helped conduct the defensive fire in response to the attack. After this combat he contracted malaria causing him to spend six weeks recovering at the home of a local Unionist. He recovered to continue service in Louisiana and later in Virginia. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in January 1863. He saw action at the Third Battle of Winchester and the Battle of Cedar Creek and was discharged as a captain in December 1864.

Medal of Honor citation

"The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Sergeant Squire Edward Howard, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 14 January 1863, while serving with Company H, 8th Vermont Infantry, in action at Bayou Teche, Louisiana. First Sergeant Howard voluntarily carried an important message through the heavy fire of the enemy to bring aid and save the gunboat Calhoun."

Postwar

Howard was active in veterans affairs after the war and served on the committee that commissioned George Carpenter's regimental history in 1886. He also wrote the introductory narrative for Adjutant General Theodore S. Peck's Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66 which was published in 1892.

Howard was awarded the Medal of Honor on January 29, 1894 for his actions on January 14, 1863, during the Bayou Teche Campaign.

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