Medal of Honor
April 6, 1865
Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company H, 1st West Virginia Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓Capture of battle flag of 12th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.) in hand-to-hand battle while wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Francis Marion Cunningham — 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-000696
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- Springfield, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 05ac3e9f9fc7ba441c280f872e5f248a48c7a8b1e37ad3cbd20653dac14e4433
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current official Society evidence confirms the identity and core action record; historical action wording replaces inherited geocoder text while all inherited values and the complete legacy citation remain preserved.