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Medal of Honor Recipient

Henry Remsen Tilton

U.S. Army · Indian Campaigns

MOH-RC-001325Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1877

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Medal of Honor

September 30, 1877

Bear Paw Mountain, Montana, USA

Rank at action
Major and Surgeon
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Indian Campaigns
Unit or command
U.S. Army

The Citation

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Fearlessly risked his life and displayed great gallantry in rescuing and protecting the wounded men.
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Fearlessly risked his life and displayed great gallantry in rescuing and protection the wounded men.

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  1. Henry Remsen Tilton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001332
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Jersey City, N.J.
Archive transcription SHA-256
266f051810660de1ebc9a93c31f3d4c9d63311798ea4570d1a868b9221e5658e

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

The exact current Society grammatical wording “in rescuing and protection the wounded men” is preserved as source text rather than silently normalized.

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