Medal of Honor
May 10, 1864
Davenport Bridge, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 5th U.S. Cavalry
- Presentation date
- September 1, 1893
The Citation
Sources ↓By a gallant charge against a superior force of the enemy, extricated his command from a perilous position in which it had been ordered.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Abraham Kerns Arnold — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Abraham Kerns Arnold — United States Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗United States Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-26
official Army recipient identity, action metadata, and citation wording
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000574
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Other source date wording
- 1864-04-10
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Bedford, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- face28ac74655df8ccda4922b16cd0457a37ee95632c6383a0d3715538eaa1d9
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current Society structured field renders April 10, 1864, while the official Army citation index and inherited record render May 10, 1864. The canonical award uses May 10 and preserves both official source values; no underlying General Order comparison is claimed.