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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Washington Healey

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000813Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

July 29, 1864

Newnan, Georgia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company E, 5th Iowa Cavalry

The Citation

Sources ↓
When nearly surrounded by the enemy, captured a Confederate soldier, and with the aid of a comrade who joined him later, captured 4 other Confederate soldiers, disarmed the 5 prisoners, and brought them all into the Union lines.
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When nearly surrounded by the enemy, captured a Confederate soldier, and with the aid of a comrade who joined him later, captured four other Confederate soldiers, disarmed the five prisoners, and brought them all into the Union lines.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Washington Healey — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. George Washington Healey — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    Army index identity, Newnan action-place rendering, date, unit, rank, and citation wording

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000819
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Corporal
Entered service at
Dubuque, Iowa
Archive transcription SHA-256
8971619fe78a35f07ea41c95119dce8d459bf3cb1b0d3ffb7ff760eadd5c4b0d

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

The Society structured profile renders the action place as Newman, Georgia, while the official Army citation index and inherited record use Newnan. Newnan is canonical; both official renderings remain preserved. The Society citation spells out four and five, while the Army and inherited texts use numerals.

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