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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles W. McKay

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000948Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

May 8, 1864

Dug Gap, Georgia, USA

Rank at action
Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company C, 154th New York Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily risked his life in rescuing under the fire of the enemy a wounded comrade who was Iying between the lines.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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

Voluntarily risked his life in rescuing under the fire of the enemy a wounded comrade who was lying between the lines.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles W. McKay — 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-000954
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Allegheny, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
cc0626cff27a813858e3f6590f90666f4da220c45bde131e74e21b582e8f182f

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

The current reference profile corrects surname capitalization and the inherited OCR form “Iying” to “lying,” supplies Captain as the highest rank, and normalizes the historical Dug Gap place. The complete inherited OCR rendering remains preserved.

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