Medal of Honor
December 13, 1862
Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company I, 19th Massachusetts Infantry
- Presentation date
- December 16, 1896
The Citation
Sources ↓Seized the 2 colors from the hands of a corporal and a lieutenant as they fell mortally wounded, and with a color in each hand advanced across the field to a point where the regiment was reformed on those colors.
Separately preserved current-source wording
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Seized the two colors from the hands of a corporal and a lieutenant as they fell mortally wounded, and with a color in each hand advanced across the field to a point where the regiment was reformed on those colors.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Gregory Bishop Adams — 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-000562
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 8bb747a33a02461d97a8799ad520e8b8843f1dbecb32f21f7a7a4975c0b26b38
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile expands the initials to John Gregory bishop Adams and resolves at inherited candidate rank 3. Canonical display normalizes Bishop capitalization while preserving the source heading; Second Lieutenant and later Captain remain separate.