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Medal of Honor Recipient

Henry Ware Lawton

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000896Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 3, 1864

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company A, 30th Indiana Infantry

The Citation

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Led a charge of skirmishers against the enemy's rifle pits and stubbornly and successfully resisted 2 determined attacks of the enemy to retake the works.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Led a charge of skirmishers against the enemy rifle pits and stubbornly and successfully resisted two determined attacks of the enemy to retake the works.

Sources & record notes

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

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

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Henry Ware Lawton — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-28

    inherited/Army “enemy’s rifle pits” and numeral 2 citation rendering

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000902
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Major General
Entered service at
Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Ind.
Archive transcription SHA-256
ffd8061f3c4454341cdc3c2a21065886b8d746ac840b4badaa2e225c1bb46210

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

The reference profile expands the name and spells out “two” while omitting the possessive in “enemy rifle pits.” The complete inherited/Army wording remains preserved.

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