| 词条 | David Ayers |
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|name = David Ayers |birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|4|29}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|12|11|1841|4|29}} |image = US-MOH-1862.png |alt = Civil War era Medal of Honor |birth_place = Kalida, Ohio |death_place = Chicago, Illinois |placeofburial_label = Place of burial |placeofburial = Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago |allegiance = United States of America Union |branch =United States Army Union Army |rank = First Lieutenant |serviceyears = 1861 - 1865 |unit = Company A, 57th Ohio Infantry |battles = American Civil War {{*}} Siege of Vicksburg |awards = Medal of Honor }} David Ayers (April 4, 1841 – December 11, 1916) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. Union assaultOn May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack. The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth century vernacular, a "forlorn hope". Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment. The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body, the men of the forlorn hope were unable to retreat until nightfall. Of the 150 men in the storming party, nearly half were killed. Seventy-nine of the survivors were awarded the Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor citationFor gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863. See also{{Portal|Biography|United States Navy|American Civil War}}
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|accessdate=July 13, 2010 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html |title= Civil War (A-L), Ayers, David entry |work= Medal of Honor recipients |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |date= August 6, 2009 }}
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