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Medal of Honor Recipient

Henry Van Ness Boynton

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000606Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

November 25, 1863

Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Rank at action
Lieutenant Colonel
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
35th Ohio Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Led his regiment in the face of a severe fire of the enemy; was severely wounded.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Henry Van Ness Boynton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000612
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Brevet Brigadier General
Entered service at
Ohio
Archive transcription SHA-256
f7c5851b4c737c016200dee8073d184d9b8a527a3bbe959132426a249b6520f3

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

The current reference profile expands the middle name, replaces the modern Chattanooga geocoder wording with Missionary Ridge, and preserves Lieutenant Colonel as the action rank and Brevet Brigadier General as the later/highest rank. Canonical display normalizes title capitalization.

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