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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Washington Walton

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001186Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

August 29, 1864

Fort Hell, Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry
Presentation date
August 6, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
Went outside the trenches, under heavy fire at short range, and rescued a comrade who had been wounded and thrown out of the trench by an exploding shell.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Went outside the trenches, under heavy fire at short-range, and rescued a comrade who had been wounded and thrown out of the trench by an exploding shell.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Washington Walton — 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-001192
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Sergeant
Entered service at
Upper Oxford, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
c7a4676083338a60e272fefd29b151d1480c146a5df571de448b3339fd76cc40

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

Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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