Medal of Honor
September 4, 1862
Sandy Cross Roads, North Carolina, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company C, 1st New York Mounted Rifles
The Citation
Sources ↓While scouting, this soldier, in command of an advance of but 3 or 4 men, came upon the enemy, and charged them without orders, the rest of the troops following, the whole force of the enemy, 120 men, being captured.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
While scouting, this soldier, in command of an advance of but three or four men, came upon the enemy, and charged them without orders, the rest of the troops following, the whole force of the enemy, 120 men, being captured.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Frank W. Mills — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000967
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Sergeant
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 7c28d402caed5abaa58ba8b52351709ff1f48d4872e3180062744623dd4332bc
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile records First Sergeant as the highest later rank, replaces an unrelated Ohio geocoder result with Sandy Cross Roads, North Carolina, and spells out “three or four” where the inherited citation uses numerals. Both texts remain preserved.