Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company C, 9th Iowa Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Carried the colors in advance of his regiment and was shot down while attempting to plant them on the enemy's works.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James M Elson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- James M Elson — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27
official Army index name and unit rendering for James Elson
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000733
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- d789938ac383f7404f00886bf0e626eac0af1280d04df58e139c09c53cb5ab9d
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile confirms James M Elson and Company C, 9th Iowa Infantry. The Army citation index contains a malformed “Elision” heading and omits the regiment number; those official defects are preserved in the evidence rather than adopted canonically.