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Medal of Honor Recipient

Andrew Davidson

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000696Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

July 30, 1864

Petersburg at the mine, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company H, 30th U.S. Colored Troops

The Citation

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One of the first to enter the enemy's works, where, after his colonel, major, and one-third the company officers had fallen, he gallantly assisted in rallying and saving the remnant of the command.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

One of the first to enter the enemy's works, where, after his colonel, major, and one-third of the company's officers had fallen, he gallantly assisted in rallying and saving the remnant of the command.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Andrew Davidson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Andrew Davidson — United States Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗United States Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    official disambiguation of the two Andrew Davidson recipients and confirmation of rank, unit, date, place, and citation

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000702
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Otsego County, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
8e5d3137b7e54dc4c10943d552981d963c04c8cc5decb9a49fb98c1e757c50df

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

The inherited first name “Anderw” is a transcription error. Official Society and Army evidence resolves the correct Andrew Davidson by matching First Lieutenant, Company H, 30th U.S. Colored Troops, and the July 30, 1864 Petersburg mine action. The separate Assistant Surgeon Andrew Davidson profile is explicitly excluded.

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