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Medal of Honor Recipient

Dewitt Clinton Lewis

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000899Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

June 16, 1862

Secessionville, South Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of can1ster shot at short range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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

While retiring with his men before a heavy fire of canister shot at short-range, returned in the face of the enemy's fire and rescued an exhausted private of his company who but for this timely action would have lost his life by drowning in the morass through which the troops were retiring.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Dewitt Clinton Lewis — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Dewitt Clinton Lewis — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-28

    inherited/Army OCR “can1ster” and unhyphenated “short range” citation rendering

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000905
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Archive transcription SHA-256
43b4177c4bd28bee22204adec9e91d3f4eadf25e977bb5d44eaff83ced3c53dc

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

The reference profile corrects the inherited/Army OCR “can1ster” and hyphenates “short-range.” Both full official renderings remain preserved.

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