Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin’s Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 5th U.S. Colored Troops
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James H Bronson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- James H Bronson — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-26
official Company D, 5th U.S. Colored Troops unit wording, action metadata, and citation
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000617
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Other source unit wording
- Company D, 5th U.S. Colored Infantry
- Entered service at
- Delaware County, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0d3631d3ad7fd7813f8e1cf8fc94f12944262c8ed69719130e67bd266421e9fd
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited Norfolk street geocoder result with Chapin’s Farm. Its structured unit says 5th U.S. Colored Infantry; the official Army index and inherited record say 5th U.S. Colored Troops. The canonical unit follows the Army rendering and both source values are retained.