Medal of Honor
July 17, 1882
Big Dry Wash, Arizona Territory, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Indian Campaigns
- Unit or command
- Company D, 3d U.S. Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Charles Taylor — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Charles Taylor — United States Army ↗United States Army · Checked 2026-08-29
conflicting Army action-date rendering of July 17, 1862 and legacy citation corroboration
- Charles Taylor — Military Times Hall of Valor ↗Military Times Hall of Valor · Checked 2026-08-29
July 17, 1882 action date, Company D, 3d U.S. Cavalry, and Big Dry Wash action place for Charles Taylor
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001636
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-29
- Other source unit wording
- Company7 D, 3d U.S. Cavalry
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c08ca9ce106d13fd7ab610eee0bf46e902a9e27cb06616557aaa230000254287
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile and Hall of Valor identify an Indian Campaigns action at Big Dry Wash on July 17, 1882. The inherited row and current Army citation index use July 17, 1862; canonical metadata follows the corroborated 1882 evidence while the Army and legacy variant remains preserved. The Society page unit typo “Company7” is retained as exact source text while the canonical unit is normalized to Company D.