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Medal of Honor Recipient

Frederick A Ballen

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000570Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1908

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Medal of Honor

May 3, 1863

Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry
Presentation date
November 6, 1908

The Citation

Sources ↓
Was one of a party that volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and 2 barges loaded with subsistence stores.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Was one of a party that volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Frederick A Ballen — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Frederick A Ballen — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-26

    official Army name, unit, action date, action place, citation, and 1842 birth-year rendering

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000576
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
Adrian, Mich.
Archive transcription SHA-256
529305964db6d0c931764d35898ead242848db718409ae8673af27e362795dab

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

The current reference profile adds the middle initial A and confirms the award identity and action metadata. The current reference profile and Army index disagree on the birth year; that biographical discrepancy is preserved and does not alter the award decision.

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