Medal of Honor
July 3, 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company C (Howard Guards), 12th Vermont Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Passed through a murderous fire of grape and canister in delivering orders and re-formed the crowded lines.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Passed through a murderous fire of grape and canister in delivering order and re-formed the crowded lines.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- George Greenville Benedict — 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-000591
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Burlington, Vt.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 1824bfacd71d7e72e8ae4d01f9c0e0954bb9e47dbabe8feab1cdbfcd2a2b6fd3
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile expands the middle name and supplies the Howard Guards parenthetical in the unit.