Medal of Honor
May 6, 1864
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 9th New Jersey Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Commanded the skirmish line in the advance and held his position all day and during the night.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James Madison Drake — 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-000723
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Elizabeth, N.J.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 5485706f9b7de1a22ebb56bb559181b91ad083c8d61269e0adbd71355c70d068
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Current official Society evidence confirms the identity and core action record; historical action wording replaces inherited geocoder text while all inherited values and the complete legacy citation remain preserved.