Charles Whittlesey is awarded receives the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Lt. Col. Whittlesey receives the medal from Gen. Clarence Edwards, former commander of the Yankee Division, before a crowd of 20,000 people on Boston Common. Whittlesey, a Harvard College and Law School graduate, led the so-called Seventy-Seventh division “Lost Battalion” that, though trapped and outmanned, refused to surrender to the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.