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Medal of Honor Recipient

Galusha Pennypacker

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001007Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Colonel
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
97th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Citation

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Gallantly led the charge over a traverse and planted the colors of one of his regiments thereon, was severely wounded.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Gallantly led the charge over a traverse and planted the colors of one of his regiments thereon; was severely wounded.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Galusha Pennypacker — 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-001013
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Major General U.S.A.
Entered service at
West Chester, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
accdc1011558ce4346a68cbb74dbda3ac33a5a35b4bf0354ece97db6cdcf3ef2

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

The current reference profile confirms the award, records Colonel as the action rank and Major General U.S.A. as the highest later rank, replaces a modern museum-address geocoder result with Fort Fisher, and renders a semicolon where the inherited transcription used a comma.

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