Medal of Honor
September 17, 1862
Antietam, Maryland, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company H, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓After his command had been forced to fall back, remained alone on the line of battle, caring for his wounded comrades and carrying one of them to a place of safety.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Hillary Beyer — 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-000595
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b4969d561e6a1705e65288d4275343a9eaba07dd6fd4d977145b53f02f489328
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile preserves Second Lieutenant as the action rank and First Lieutenant as the later/highest rank.