Medal of Honor
June 11, 1864
Trevilian Station, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant Major
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 10th New York Cavalry (Porter Guard)
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily carried a message which stopped the firing of a Union battery into his regiment, in which service he crossed a ridge in plain view and swept by the fire of both armies.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Herbert E Farnsworth — 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-000742
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0547848060614001b66d9d474f525f007a35a21d4fe533bd21017071e8e1b068
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current official Society evidence confirms the identity and core action record; historical action wording replaces inherited geocoder text while all inherited values and the complete legacy citation remain preserved.