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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Hack

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000788Source-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: 1907

Portrait not yet available. Representative medal shown.

About this image

Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1907), not authenticated medal-object provenance.

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Medal of Honor

May 3, 1863

Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry
Presentation date
January 3, 1907

The Citation

Sources ↓
Was one of a party which volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and 2 barges loaded with subsistence stores.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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

Was one of a party which volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores.

Sources & record notes

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

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

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000794
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
Adrian, Mich.
Archive transcription SHA-256
5014472fef837418c8a3beb0566c0441f15266ab29aefaa771a49b757df29699

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

Current Society evidence confirms the identity and action record. The current citation spells out two where the inherited citation uses the numeral 2; both complete texts remain preserved.

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