Medal of Honor
September 20, 1863
Chickamauga, Georgia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army
- Presentation date
- July 8, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Horace Porter — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001031
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Harrisburg, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- a921b5e0b1741dde7cf1102df2a9f8547a09e5dfb29e75eb1c3fcf05a0d76894
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the identity and award, records Captain as the action rank and Brevet Brigadier General as the highest later rank, expands the unit to Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, and normalizes the historical action place.