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Medal of Honor Recipient

John C Hunterson

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000853Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

June 5, 1862

on the Peninsula, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company B, 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry

The Citation

Sources ↓
While under fire, between the lines of the 2 armies, voluntarily gave up his own horse to an engineer officer whom he was accompanying on a reconnaissance and whose horse had been killed, thus enabling the officer to escape with valuable papers in his possession.
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While under fire, between the lines of the two armies, voluntarily gave up his own horse to an engineer officer whom he was accompanying on a reconnaissance and whose horse had been killed, thus enabling the officer to escape with valuable papers in his possession.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John C Hunterson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. John C Hunterson — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    Army index identity, date, unit, historical place, and numeric “2 armies” citation rendering

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000859
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
Philadelphia, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
9c0b95abfd7ec5000f37227143422f2048dfd665331cf81141c80b9f88d79621

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

The Society citation spells out two armies while the Army/inherited citation uses the numeral 2. The historical Peninsula wording replaces the inherited state-only place canonically.

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