Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company A, 21st Connecticut Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Although wounded, refused to leave the field until the fight closed.
Sources & record notes
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- Frederick Clarence Buck — 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-001388
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- Windsor, Conn.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 35445689b5c9ef3f686a0f18f806f920ad59ce1f9c28353570fa6c87ee8513a4
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Controlled archival reference search recovered the current Frederick Clarence Buck profile outside the generated candidate set. Service, unit, action date, place, and citation establish one identity; the inherited F. Clarence Buck rendering remains preserved.