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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Parke Postles

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001570Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

July 2, 1863

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company A, 1st Delaware Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily delivered an order in the face of heavy fire of the enemy.
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Voluntarily delivered an order in the face of heavy fire from the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Parke Postles — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001578
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-29
Entered service at
Wilmington, Del.
Archive transcription SHA-256
9186bbf731684638f71dc363480f3b42e5f119ecca11de18919986c050b36fd0

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

The current Society citation rendering and the inherited citation are retained separately with independent checksums; no silent citation replacement occurred.

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