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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Howard

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000846Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

April 2, 1865

near Petersburg (Battery Gregg), Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company K, 158th New York Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Carried the colors in advance of the line of battle, the flagstaff being shot off while he was planting it on the parapet of the fort.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Howard — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000852
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Archive transcription SHA-256
400d95b4715f60f7678f05a3fc150b3ddd96463d1c91f85ddc300a496da1228e

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

The reference profile records the alias James Brown and supplies the fuller Battery Gregg action-place wording.

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