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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Granville Thompson

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001149Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

April 1, 1865

White Oak Road, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company K, 4th New York Heavy Artillery

The Citation

Sources ↓
Made a hazardous reconnaissance through timber and slashings, preceding the Union line of battle, signaling the troops and leading them through the obstructions.
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Made a hazardous reconnaissance through timber and slashings, preceding the Union line of battle, signaling the troops, and leading them through the obstructions.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Granville Thompson — 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-001155
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Entered service at
Sandy Creek, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
ff0eca50504100d9bade19bab4b7048c88c4a878d3c4511bc69c35ca099e9d87

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

All inherited James Thompson candidates were stale or belonged to other identities. Controlled archival reference search recovered James Granville Thompson at /james-g-thompson. The expanded identity, current URL, failed inherited candidates, action metadata, citation, provenance, and checksums are preserved without an identity merge.

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