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Medal of Honor Recipient

Ambrose Porter

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001024Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1905

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Medal of Honor

August 7, 1864

Tallahatchie River, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Commissary Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company D, 12th Missouri Cavalry
Presentation date
August 24, 1905

The Citation

Sources ↓
Was 1 of 4 volunteers who swam the river under a brisk fire of the enemy's sharpshooters and brought over a ferry boat by means of which the troops crossed and dislodged the enemy from a strong position.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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

Was one of four volunteers who swam the river under a brisk fire of the enemy's sharpshooters and brought over a ferry boat, by means of which the troops crossed and dislodged the enemy from a strong position.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Ambrose Porter — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001030
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
First Lieutenant
Entered service at
Rockport, Atchison County, Mo.
Archive transcription SHA-256
0c2012cc2eb0993a6b13cd3eda342675bc213b93ebbbfca92a38e1ca9f66ee50

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

The current reference profile confirms the identity and award, records Commissary Sergeant as the action rank and First Lieutenant as the highest later rank, and preserves rendered one/four wording and comma punctuation beside the inherited 1/4 and punctuation variants.

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