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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edward A Holton

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000835Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 16, 1862

Lee's Mills, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
First Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company I, 6th Vermont Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Rescued the colors of his regiment under heavy fire, the color bearer having been shot down while the troops were in retreat.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Edward A Holton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000841
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Williston, Vt.
Archive transcription SHA-256
eb7d269b1ba8f1ae5cb0585fca1c0a0561afbf500f32d06aa3daa33f63328b03

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

The current profile distinguishes First Sergeant at action from later Captain and replaces the inherited road geocoder result with historical Lee's Mills wording.

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