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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Burton Pond

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001023Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

October 6, 1863

Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company C, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry

The Citation

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While in command of 2 companies of Cavalry, was surprised and attacked by several times his own number of guerrillas, but gallantly rallied his men, and after a severe struggle drove the enemy outside the fortifications. 1st Lt. Pond then went outside the works and, alone and unaided, fired a howitzer 3 times, throwing the enemy into confusion and causing him to retire.
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While in command of two companies of cavalry, was surprised and attacked by several times his own number of guerrillas, but gallantly rallied his men, and after a severe struggle drove the enemy outside the fortifications. First Lt. Pond then went outside the works and, alone and unaided, fired a howitzer three times, throwing the enemy into confusion and causing him to retire.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Burton Pond — 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-001029
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Major
Entered service at
Janesville, Rock County, Wis.
Archive transcription SHA-256
0ff6eb519e2502354a1f171eeaab2c6ffb097b98992f78a5eff49fc9e61130ad

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

The current reference profile confirms the award, expands the middle name, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Major as the highest later rank, normalizes the action place, and preserves rendered word-number, capitalization, abbreviation, and spacing variants beside the legacy citation.

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