Medal of Honor
May 2, 1863
Chancellorsville, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Battery I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
The Citation
Sources ↓Fought his guns until the enemy were upon him, then with one gun hauled in the road by hand he formed the rear guard and kept the enemy at bay by the rapidity of his fire and was the last man in the retreat.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Hubert Dilger — 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-000712
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Entered service at
- New York, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0ef4f609f47df4e1715a9b25fdf063a8279b24e90f3ce72f2d72328841b02974
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current official Society evidence confirms Battery I, using the letter I. The inherited “Battery 1” rendering is preserved as a legacy transcription variant.