Medal of Honor
April 1, 1865
Berryville, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant & Adjutant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 30th Massachusetts Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Accompanied only by an orderly, outside the lines of the Army, he gallantly resisted an attack of 5 of Mosby's cavalry, mortally wounded the leader of the party, seized his horse and pistols, wounded 3 more, and, though wounded himself, escaped.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Accompanied only by an orderly, outside the lines of the Army, he gallantly resisted an attack of five of Mosby's cavalry, mortally wounded the leader of the party, seized his horse and pistols, wounded three more, and, though wounded himself, escaped.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Eugene W Ferris — 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-000747
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Entered service at
- Lowell, Mass.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 52c390d8fda39c2b06d0a126b928ceeeb17d42c553186e3e00b09a148152ae06
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current Society citation spells out five and three, while the inherited citation uses numerals; both complete texts and hashes are preserved.