Colonel Devereux is quoted as saying, "At the instant a man broke through my lines and thrust a rebel battle flag into my hands.

Medal of Honor citation: Rank and organization: Corporal, Company I, 19th Massachusetts Infantry Place and date:At Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863 Born:Boston, Mass.

Date of issue: December 1, 1864 Citation: After the war De Castro entered the regular Army and served for a few years.

His funeral was held at the 18th Street Methodist Church in New York City and he was buried at Fairmount Cemetery (Section 2, Lot 300, Grave 2) in Newark, New Jersey.

[2] In Netflix's television series House of Cards in Season 2 Episode 8, outgoing President Garrett Walker's White House Chief of Staff, Linda Vasquez, presented De Castro's Medal of Honor to Vice President Frank Underwood as a farewell gift because Frank used to paint Civil War Era toy soldiers as a hobby.