Medal of Honor
July 30, 1864
Cemetery Hill, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 30th U.S. Colored Troops
- Presentation date
- June 22, 1891
The Citation
Sources ↓Gallantry in action where he fell, shot through the face, at the head of his regiment.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Delavan Bates — 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-000581
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Oswego County, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b513e67bab5aa18d6cd02a51de47bf1a172e57aab8ea43fadd36c8c1cd55d7f1
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited modern geocoder result with the historical Cemetery Hill, Petersburg location and preserves the later Brevet Brigadier General rank.