Career
He was honored with the award on 20 January 1897. Churchill was born in Rutland, Vermont on 1 November 1842. He enlisted into Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery at DeKalb County, Illinois.
When he returned to his battery shortly thereafter, he was promoted to the position of corporal.
After the war, he moved to Lee"s Summit, Missouri and then Lawrence, Kansas. In 1901, Churchill wrote Genealogy and of the Connecticut Branch of the Churchill Family in America in which he recounts his Civil War experiences.
Churchill died on 3 June 1932 and his remains are interred at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. The Lawrence, Kansas Army Reserve Training Center is named in his honor.
