Medal of Honor
March 2, 1865
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company G, 8th New York 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.
- Daniel Armer Kelly — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Daniel Armer Kelly — U.S. Army ↗U.S. Army · Checked 2026-08-29
recipient identity, sergeant rank, Company G of the 8th New York Cavalry, Waynesboro action place, action date of March 2, 1865, award date of March 26, 1865, and citation text
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001860
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-29
- Other source date wording
- 1865-03-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Quartermaster Sergeant
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 478d6803fa871937c62e3aa36206219eb4cd9cbf961dd5367a3f2e3084ebae18
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited candidate set did not include the current Daniel Armer Kelly reference profile. Controlled archival reference search recovered the profile; matching service, unit, action date, place, and citation establish the identity while all inherited candidates remain preserved. The current authoritative source expands, corrects, or normalizes the inherited name from Daniel Kelly to Daniel Armer Kelly; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile records later/highest rank Quartermaster Sergeant. The current reference profile records March 26, 1865 as the action date, while the inherited record and official U.S. Army Medal of Honor index identify March 2, 1865 as the Waynesboro action date and March 26 as the award date. March 2 controls the canonical action field; the Society date remains preserved as a current-source discrepancy. Additional authoritative federal evidence is preserved to distinguish the action date from the award date without silently overwriting the Society rendering. No General Order verification is claimed; the exact-order gate remains pending. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved.