Medal of Honor
December 31, 1862
Stone River, Tennessee, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 18th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily went to the front and picked up and carried to a place of safety, under a heavy fire from the enemy, an acting field officer who had been wounded, and was about to fall into enemy hands.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Henry Blanchard Freeman — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000760
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Mount Vernon, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- ea78c8eac646275693fb3d75ac4bc21994d10bf0c34e19053891d43ee8e9e51b
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile expands Henry B. Freeman to Henry Blanchard Freeman and confirms the historical Stone River action location. The inherited modern geocoder result remains preserved in evidence.