Medal of Honor
May 10, 1863
Horseshoe Bend, Kentucky, USA
- Rank at action
- Major
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 20th Michigan Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Distinguished gallantry in leading his regiment in a charge on a house occupied by the enemy.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Byron M Cutcheon — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000701
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Ypsilanti, Mich.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b0a7ca46df69b408faff2dfafa8464c319e83473d42c22f69360c3ca4f6398c9
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current official Society evidence confirms Cutcheon’s May 10, 1863 action at Horseshoe Bend. That date was incorrectly duplicated into the adjacent inherited Thomas Custer row; each legacy value and correction is preserved separately.