Medal of Honor
October 4, 1862
Corinth, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant and Adjutant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 59th Indiana Infantry
- Presentation date
- August 2, 1897
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily took command of another regiment, with the consent of one or more of his seniors, who were present, rallied the command and led it in the assault.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James W Archer — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000573
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Spencer, Ind. Birth: Edgar, Ill.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b6d5600a68deff0bad1232088db9fef92226c94f79a36fa1dbb1fb80c8e36305
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official profile confirms the identity and expands the inherited slash-form rank to First Lieutenant and Adjutant.