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Medal of Honor Recipient

Jacob F Yeager

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-001234Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

May 11, 1864

Buzzard's Roost, Georgia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company H, 101st Ohio Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Seized a shell with fuze burning that had fallen in the ranks of his company and threw it into a stream, thereby probably saving his comrades from injury.
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Seized a shell with fuse burning that had fallen in the ranks of his company and threw it into a stream, thereby probably saving his comrades from injury.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Jacob F Yeager — 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-001240
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Entered service at
Tiffin, Ohio
Archive transcription SHA-256
1f42b6d61ee696d106e23c3286778de97acb38af2a4e3535cc659813ba94247c

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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