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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Breyer

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000609Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

August 23, 1862

Rappahannock Station, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company I, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Voluntarily, and at great personal risk, picked up an unexploded shell and threw it away, thus doubtless saving the life of a comrade whose arm had been taken off by the same shell.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Voluntarily and at great personal risk, Breyer picked up an unexploded shell and threw it away, thus doubtless saving the life of a comrade whose arm had been taken off by the same shell.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles Breyer — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000615
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
Philadelphia, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
14698e76506b177b1ceda6622385c3a0f2a52c9e10750c68fa46a0327ad0c4e4

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

The current reference profile replaces the inherited hospital-heliport geocoder result with Rappahannock Station and confirms the action metadata and citation.

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