John C. Black

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United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1839-1915)

United States PoliticiansLived 1839 to 1915 · aged 76

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John Charles Black was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Union Army lieutenant colonel and regimental commander at the Battle of Prairie Grove during the American Civil War.

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Black's former house (right) in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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