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Medal of Honor Recipient

Frederick A. Lyon

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000921Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

October 19, 1864

Cedar Creek, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company A, 1st Vermont Cavalry

The Citation

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With 1 companion, captured the flag of a Confederate regiment, 3 officers, and an ambulance with its mules and driver.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

With one companion, captured the flag of a Confederate regiment, three officers, and an ambulance with its mules and driver.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Frederick A. Lyon — 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-000927
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Sergeant
Entered service at
Burlington, Vt.
Archive transcription SHA-256
eea4c93dd8ad8f60e684458d8318c2ba1e315eedaf4a4def9626ef387c9026e8

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

The current reference profile confirms the identity and action metadata, records Sergeant as the highest later rank, and spells out “one” and “three” where the inherited transcription uses numerals. Both complete citation renderings are preserved.

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