Medal of Honor
July 30, 1864
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Benjamin Franklin McAlwee — 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-000943
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant Major
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 10f26a7d9a35afceb3054b344d3213edb6a5fed4a5ed38fd53132a3d5c2a4790
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
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