Seventeen year-old Private Benjamin Levy of the 1st New York Infantry won the Medal of Honor at the Glendale crossroads

At the age of sixteen, New York City native Benjamin Levy enlisted in the Union army. Levy was posted as a drummer boy to the 1st New York Infantry's musician corps, despite the fact that he was still technically ineligible and the regulation was frequently broken.

He was in a tent on June 30, 1862, just to the north and east of the Glendale intersection. Levy made the decision to take action as the first line's cannonade of gunfire began to intensify. The young soldier hurried to join the regimental combat line as it marched into the dusk battle at the Glendale crossroads, leaving behind his drum and taking a sick comrade's musket. The regiment's color guard was swiftly devastated by Confederate fire, which made the New Yorkers hesitate. Levy proceeded to the front of the formation as the crisis developed and once more raised the battle flags. The line steadied around the former drummer boy and, with the help of reinforcements, the Confederates were eventually repulsed. Levy is the first person of the documented Jewish faith to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.