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Medal of Honor Recipient

Albert Leopold Mills

U.S. Army · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-000511Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1902), not authenticated medal-object provenance.

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Medal of Honor

July 1, 1898

near Santiago, Cuba

Rank at action
Captain & Assistant Adjutant General
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S. Volunteers
Presentation date
July 9, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
Distinguished gallantry in encouraging those near him by his bravery and coolness after being shot through the head and entirely without sight.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Distinguished gallantry in encouraging those near him by his bravery and coolness after being shot though the head and entirely without sight.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Albert Leopold Mills — 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-000517
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Major General
Entered service at
New York, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
86aa798745569f82ac66253af038c39b019d2d6b23a42ea9105cc1efdd9ecad5

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current official profile confirms identity and action date and records canonical name Albert Leopold Mills; action rank Captain & Assistant Adjutant General; conflict Spanish-American War; historical action place near Santiago, Cuba; later/highest rank Major General. The source-rendered citation spelling “though the head” is preserved separately from the inherited “through the head” transcription.

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