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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Kephart

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000882Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

May 19, 1863

Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company C, 1st Battalion, 13th U.S. Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily and at the risk of his life, under a severe fire of the enemy, aided and ass1sted to the rear an officer who had been severely wounded and left on the field.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

At the assault on the Confederate works at Vicksburg, Miss., May 19, 1863, Mr. Kephart then a private of Company C, 1st Battalion, 13th U.S. Infantry, voluntarily and at the risk of his life, when the Battalion was about to retreat, returned, and under a severe fire of the enemy, aided and assisted to the rear an officer who had been severely wounded and left on the field, thereby saving him from capture.

Sources & record notes

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

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

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. James Kephart — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    Army index identity, action metadata, shorter unit form, and inherited OCR-rendered citation

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000888
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Archive transcription SHA-256
2eff0d3ea3c0102c72440fe3777511e6999951770354eea022e561cd32fad02d

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

The current Society structured profile and citation include 1st Battalion, while the Army index and inherited citation use the shorter Company C, 13th U.S. Infantry wording. The fuller current unit is canonical; both official variants remain preserved. The current citation also corrects the inherited OCR form “ass1sted.”

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