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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Milton Pipes

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001018Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 25, 1864

Gettysburg & Reams Station, Pennsylvania & Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
While a sergeant and retiring with his company before the rapid advance of the enemy at Gettysburg, he and a companion stopped and carried to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade; in this act both he and his companion were severely wounded. A year later, at Reams Station, Va., while commanding a skirmish line, voluntarily assisted in checking a flank movement of the enemy, and while so doing was severely wounded, suffering the loss of an arm.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Milton Pipes — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001024
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Archive transcription SHA-256
97c5717cc27456df45019c3b9d9354d219bccfbfd8a13ad5b3d20eb73ce1eba9

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

The inherited James Pipes candidates did not include the current reference URL. Controlled archival reference search recovered James Milton Pipes. The archive expands the full name, adds Captain as the structured action rank, and preserves the Society’s combined Gettysburg and Reams Station action-place rendering beside the inherited Gettysburg-only place and the citation’s two-action chronology.

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