Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin’s Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company G, 148th New York Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took position in advance of the skirmish line and drove the enemy's cannoneers from their guns; was mortally wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- George A Buchanan — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000628
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Ontario County, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 74b61c6088f054665a305b768cebc2b849c7247effbac35ae1412306a3ad362a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited Norfolk street geocoder result with Chapin’s Farm and confirms the action metadata and citation.