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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Welsh

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001197Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1905

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Medal of Honor

July 30, 1864

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company E, 4th Rhode Island Infantry
Presentation date
June 3, 1905

The Citation

Sources ↓
Bore off the regimental colors after the color sergeant had been wounded and the color corporal bearing the colors killed thereby saving the colors from capture.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Bore off the regimental colors after the color sergeant had been wounded and the color corporal bearing the colors killed, thereby saving the colors from capture.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Welsh — 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-001203
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Entered service at
Slatersville, R.I.
Archive transcription SHA-256
0cb106ad8307d313129b4b91b1e87b225172e7aafefde7cae6520749b4799155

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

Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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