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Medal of Honor Recipient

Erastus W Jewett

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000865Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

February 2, 1864

Newport Barracks, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company A, 9th Vermont Infantry

The Citation

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By long and persistent resistance and burning the bridges kept a superior force of the enemy at a distance and thus covered the retreat of the garrison.
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By long and persistent resistance and burning the bridges, Jewett kept a superior force of the enemy at a distance and thus covered the retreat of the garrison.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Erastus W Jewett — 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-000871
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
St. Albans, Vt.
Archive transcription SHA-256
26736bfe6b83adde277d11fb18c20dd37fe0df9357830e58da9096c40b65c06b

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

The current official record replaces an unrelated inherited Ireland geocoder result with Newport Barracks, North Carolina; the inherited location remains in the evidence trail.

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