Medal of Honor
July 26, 1861 - February 10, 1906
Not documented
- Rank at action
- Major General
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Interim 1920 - 1940
- Unit or command
- Not documented
- Presentation date
- March 21, 1935
The Citation
Sources ↓For his life of splendid public service, begun on 27 March 1844, having enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army on 26 July 1861, and by successive promotions was commissioned as major general 10 February 1906, and retired by operation of law on his 64th birthday.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Adolphus Washington Greely — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-02
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-003377
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-02
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 3
- Entered service at
- Louisiana
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 30b2227d40a9a210f6e6b6bd48c3fef9578e50d23f28ae30f9229502179a272f
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The reference profile presents a special lifetime-service action range and does not document a unit or action place. Those fields remain Not documented rather than inferred.