Medal of Honor
June 30, 1862
Glendale, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 1st New York Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓This soldier, a drummer boy, took the gun of a sick comrade, went into the fight, and when the color bearers were shot down, carried the colors and saved them from capture.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Benjamin Bennett Levy — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Benjamin Bennett Levy — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-28
Benjamin Levy identity, Company B unit, action metadata, and full citation
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000904
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Other source unit wording
- Company G, 1st New York Infantry
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Color Sergeant
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 85c511bb61073ae16f2b2b8ede9be012a8ef991ce2d79b9b77285ce077f27174
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited URL no longer resolved; archival reference search found Benjamin B. Levy. A material official-source unit split is retained transparently: Army/inherited Company B is canonical, Society Company G remains parallel evidence.