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Medal of Honor Recipient

Cassius Peck

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001005Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

September 19, 1862

near Blackburn's Ford, West Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters

The Citation

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Took command of such soldiers as he could get and attacked and captured a Confederate battery of 4 guns. Also, while on a reconnaissance, overtook and captured a Confederate soldier.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Took command of such soldiers as he could get and attacked and captured a Confederate battery of four guns. Also, while on a reconnaissance, overtook and captured a Confederate soldier.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Cassius Peck — 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-001011
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Sergeant
Archive transcription SHA-256
1b7f2352a6d519f178b409a0e4ea5b032ebecf139e7c43974614090c1e260f90

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

The current reference profile confirms the identity and award, records Private as the action rank and Sergeant as the highest later rank, replaces a modern Blackburns Ford Drive geocoder result with the Society's historical place wording, and renders the inherited numeral 4 as four.

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