Medal of Honor
December 7, 1862
Prairie Grove, Arkansas, USA
- Rank at action
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 37th Illinois Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Gallantly charged the position of the enemy at the head of his regiment, after 2 other regiments had been repulsed and driven down the hill, and captured a battery; was severely wounded.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Gallantly charged the position of the enemy at the head of his regiment, after two other regiments had been repulsed and driven down the hill, and captured a battery; was severely wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Charles Black — 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-000598
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Danville, Ill.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c71a5f20395d5433e722de36ee066b62f3b345cd34999606b4f83826478568db
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile expands the middle name and preserves Lieutenant Colonel as the action rank and Brevet Brigadier General as the later/highest rank.