Medal of Honor
July 21, 1861
Bull Run, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 5th U.S. Artillery
- Presentation date
- June 22, 1894
The Citation
Sources ↓Remained upon the field in command of a section of Griffin's Battery, directing its fire after being severely wounded and refusing to leave the field until too weak to sit upon the caisson where he had been placed by men of his command.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Adelbert Ames — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000567
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major General
- Entered service at
- Rockland, Maine
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 882761c70a483aa01a4ec1d792d4f15712fb88a849e3403bef981e4d0fecce7a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official profile confirms First Lieutenant as the action rank and Brevet Major General as the later/highest rank.