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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Wilhelm

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001211Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

May 16, 1863

Champion Hill or Baker's Creek, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 56th Ohio Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Having been badly wounded in the breast and captured, he made a prisoner of his captor and brought him into camp.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Wilhelm — 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-001217
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Lieutenant Colonel
Entered service at
Lancaster, Ohio
Archive transcription SHA-256
4ad54c290912d41bbf574e07e19819610cadd53c8795f4d4e45d33c282768ba0

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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