Medal of Honor
June 27, 1862
Gaines’ Mill, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Brigadier General
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- U.S. Volunteers
The Citation
Sources ↓Seized the colors of the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers at a critical moment and, under a galling fire of the enemy, encouraged the depleted ranks to renewed exertion.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Daniel Adams Butterfield — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000637
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major General
- Entered service at
- Washington, D.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- abaf801b98654fdb5e980e7570bf9a3755ef5874a3549e58adfaf65d039f20d3
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile adds the middle name Adams, replaces the inherited state-only place with Gaines’ Mill, preserves Brigadier General as the action rank and Major General as the later/highest rank, and required archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set.