Medal of Honor
May 12, 1864
Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓In a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy captured a flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
In a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy captured flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Charles McAnally — 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-000944
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Entered service at
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 972a1b9864e8526f7feb2313c852f5fc72b0e1cbd5359fefe6eae5217a6a8428
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The reference profile corrects surname capitalization, specifies Second Lieutenant at action and Captain as the highest rank, and omits the article “a” before “flag” that appears in the inherited complete citation. Both citation texts remain parallel evidence.