Medal of Honor
April 2, 1865
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓With 6 men, captured 69 Confederate prisoners and recaptured several soldiers who had fallen into the enemy's hands.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
With six men, captured 69 Confederate prisoners and recaptured several soldiers who had fallen into the enemy's hands.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Augustus Merrill — 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-000962
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Entered service at
- Lyndon, Maine
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 12ed63dca1c11b33cac4e57ead6aeddb3417a7181db8382e5795ff03ae7a8963
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current Society citation spells out “six” where the inherited transcription uses the numeral 6. Both complete renderings and hashes are preserved.