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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles H Depuy

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000700Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

July 30, 1864

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
First Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company H, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters

The Citation

Sources ↓
Being an old artillerist, aided General Bartlett in working the guns of the dismantled fort.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Being an old artillerist, De Puy aided Gen. Bartlett in working the guns of the dismantled fort.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles H Depuy — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Charles H Depuy — United States Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗United States Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    official confirmation of the De Puy surname form, rank, unit, date, place, and citation

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000706
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
St. Louis, Mo.
Archive transcription SHA-256
1595b92d2011b614bda12669e5f68e18920cd59d3ebd024696149bffe2484ab9

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

Official Society search resolved the current Charles H Depuy profile outside the inherited De Puy candidate forms. The Society heading, image caption “Charles H. DePuy,” Army “DE PUY,” and inherited “Charles H. De Puy” forms are all preserved as source variants.

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