Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company I, 36th U.S. Colored Troops
The Citation
Sources ↓Rushed in advance of his brigade, shot a rebel officer who was on the parapet rallying his men, and then ran him through with his bayonet.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James Gardiner — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- James Gardiner — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27
official Army unit wording and citation for James Gardiner
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000766
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Other source unit wording
- Company I, 36th U.S. Colored Infantry
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 40bf5435e535e44a673077f1f3956c6ea787dc388fa24d8ff08f7a6c83ea0cf0
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The reference profile identifies the alias Gardner, James Daniel and uses 36th U.S. Colored Infantry; the Army index and inherited citation use 36th U.S. Colored Troops. The inherited/Army unit is canonical, and all variants remain preserved.