{{Short description|American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (1822–1899)}} {{Infobox military person |name = Dewitt Clinton Lewis |image = Lewis, Dewitt Clinton c1865 public domain.jpg |caption = Dewitt Clinton Lewis Medal of Honor marker in Oaklands Cemetery |birth_date = {{Birth date|1822|7|30}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|1899|6|28|1822|7|30}} |birth_place =West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States |death_place = Morton, Pennsylvania, United States |burial_place = Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States |burial_label= Place of burial |nickname= |allegiance= United States of America<br/>Union |branch= United States Army<br/>Union Army |service_years= 1861 – 1864 |rank= Captain<br>Brevet Lieutenant Colonel |commands= |unit={{flagicon|Pennsylvania}} Company F, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry |battles= Battle of Secessionville<br>American Civil War |awards= {{Flagicon image|Medal of Honor ribbon.svg}} Medal of Honor |other_work= |relations= }} '''Dewitt Clinton Lewis''' (July 30, 1822–June 28, 1899) was a Union Army soldier who served in the 97th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Lewis received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor.<ref name="Projects">{{Cite web|url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/652|title=Dewitt Clinton Lewis|access-date=2 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607002856/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=652|archive-date=7 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Lewis's medal was won for his actions at the Battle of Secessionville on June 16, 1862.<ref name="Projects"/> He was honored with the award on April 23, 1896.<ref name="History">{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civilwar_gl.html#LEWISDC|title=Civil War (G-L) Medal of Honor Recipients|accessdate=June 2, 2014|archive-date=February 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220075236/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civilwar_gl.html#LEWISDC|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/1033064039/ Captain Lewis' Medal]." West Chester, Pennsylvania: ''Daily Local News'', April 21, 1896, p. 3 (subscription required).</ref><ref>*{{Cite web |accessdate = 2008-03-13 |url = http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html |title = "DEWITT CLINTON LEWIS" entry |work = Medal of Honor recipients: American Civil War |date = June 8, 2009 |publisher = United States Army Center of Military History |archive-date = 2012-09-02 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120902081051/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html |url-status = dead }}</ref>
Lewis was from West Chester, Pennsylvania.<ref name="Projects"/>
==Medal of Honor citation== {{quotation|While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of canister shot at short range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.<ref name="Projects"/>}}
==Death, funeral and interment== Lewis died at the age of seventy-nine at his home in Morton, Pennsylvania on June 28, 1899. Following funeral services at his home on July 1, a funeral procession involving the Fame Fire Company and members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and services at the cemetery's chapel, he was interred at the Oaklands Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/1033313497/ Lewis]," in "Died." West Chester, Pennsylvania: ''Daily Local News'', June 29, 1899, p. 3 (subscription required).</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|American Civil War}} *List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: G–L
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Dewitt Clinton Lewis Medal of Honor Marker.jpg|Dewitt Clinton Lewis Medal of Honor marker in Oaklands Cemetery File:Dewitt Clinton Lewis tombstone.jpg|Dewitt Clinton Lewis tombstone in Oaklands Cemetery </gallery>
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