Medal of Honor
May 5, 1864
Wilderness Campaign, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- 11th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Under the heavy fire of the advancing enemy, picked up and carried several hundred yards to a place of safety a wounded officer of his regiment who was helpless and would otherwise have been burned in the forest.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Henry Patterson — 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-001005
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General Ret.
- Entered service at
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- f556fa3622633598bb9d196da7e0e11e7ef0a5aad16441144efd577e883128e1
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the award, expands the middle name, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Brigadier General Ret. as the highest later rank, and replaces the inherited modern Wilderness locality with the historical Wilderness Campaign wording.