Medal of Honor
December 31, 1862
Stone River, Tennessee, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- 18th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily conveyed, under a heavy fire, information to the commander of a battalion of regular troops by which the battalion was saved from capture or annihilation.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Frederick Phisterer — 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-001018
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major General
- Entered service at
- Medina County, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 905cd17901d4020456ef8ef840498b14c92d20f8143b623e77c153f5950536ed
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 award, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Brevet Major General as the highest later rank, and corrects the inherited modern Stone River Drive, Memphis geocoder result to the historical Stone River action place.