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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Pettit Heath Heyl

U.S. Army · Indian Campaigns

MOH-RC-001279Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1876

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Medal of Honor

April 28, 1876

Fort Hartsuff, Nebraska, USA

Rank at action
Second Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Indian Campaigns
Unit or command
23d U.S. Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily, and with most conspicuous gallantry, charged with 3 men upon 6 Indians who were entrenched upon a hillside.
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Voluntarily, and with most conspicuous gallantry, charged with three men upon six Indians who were entrenched upon a hillside.

Sources & record notes

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  1. Charles Pettit Heath Heyl — 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-001286
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Camden, N.J.
Archive transcription SHA-256
ed0a19941a6e1e0656d3d540c59a3670ca087daf0eee26a110e84fea981c3a9c

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

Controlled Society search recovered the current profile and expanded the inherited Charles H. Heyl rendering to Charles Pettit Heath Heyl; core award metadata and citation match.

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