Medal of Honor
April 2, 1865
Hatcher's Run, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 116th U.S. Colored Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily passed between the lines, under a heavy fire from the enemy, and obtained important information.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Ira Hobart Evans — 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-000738
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major
- Entered service at
- Barre, Vt.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- a6ec81f2a1a9de1cc92cfd70c0d584ebcf755d057a2d3470f8f0a5a339223311
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.