Medal of Honor
July 3, 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 1st Minnesota Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Taking up the colors where they had fallen, he rushed ahead of his regiment, close to the muzzles of the enemy's guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Henry D. O'Brien — 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-000992
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major
- Entered service at
- St. Anthony Falls, Minn.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 2ba7842c76ac44d7c04e15325d3ae914fec2febd3dc55b8d5c2466f82cba7827
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile confirms the identity and citation and records Major as the highest later rank.