Francis S. Hesseltine

Francis Snow Hesseltine (December 10, 1833 - February 17, 1916) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

Hesseltine was born in Bangor, Maine on December 10, 1833. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism on December 30, 1863, while serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the 13th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, at Matagorda Bay, Texas. His Medal of Honor was issued on March 2, 1895.

He died at the age of 82, on February 17, 1916 and was buried at the Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose, Massachusetts.