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Medal of Honor Recipient

Jacob George Orth

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000990Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

September 17, 1862

Antietam, Maryland, USA

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Capture of flag of 7th South Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.), in hand_to_hand encounter, although he was wounded in the shoulder.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Capture of flag of 7th South Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.), in hand-to-hand encounter, although he was wounded in the shoulder.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Jacob George Orth — 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-000996
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Sergeant
Archive transcription SHA-256
d43745658d4530feeb81617a1035bb09d89e150902bff67d11f9193c4990e51e

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, expands the middle name, records Corporal as the action rank and Sergeant as the highest later rank, and corrects the inherited citation token hand_to_hand to the rendered historical wording hand-to-hand without deleting the legacy transcription.

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