Andrew Jackson Smith Medal of Honor VA Clinic Designation Act

A VA outpatient clinic in Bloomington, Illinois, would be officially renamed the "Andrew Jackson Smith Medal of Honor Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic." Smith was a Civil War soldier in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry who, during the Battle of Honey Hill in South Carolina in 1864, saved his regiment's colors after the color bearer was killed — carrying the flag through heavy enemy fire even as half the officers and a third of the enlisted men were killed or wounded. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and this bill honors his sacrifice by putting his name on the clinic.