Medal of Honor
July 4, 1863
Monterey Mountain, Pennsylvania, USA
- Rank at action
- Major
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 1st West Virginia Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓While commanding the regiment, charged down the mountain side at midnight, in a heavy rain, upon the enemy's fleeing wagon train. Many wagons were captured and destroyed and many prisoners taken.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
While commanding the regiment, Capehart charged down the mountain side at midnight, in a heavy rain, upon the enemy's fleeing wagon train. Many wagons were captured and destroyed and many prisoners taken.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Charles E Capehart — 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-000643
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Entered service at
- Washington, D.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- f0b0c1357fc8d2b5d947e4593b18de9264363bf998acb1fdf3ebe48b6319921a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited Scranton road geocoder result with Monterey Mountain, preserves Major as the action rank and Lieutenant Colonel as the later/highest rank, and supplies the current rendered citation.