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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Kennedy

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000880Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

June 11, 1864

Trevilian Station, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company M, 2d U.S. Artillery

The Citation

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Remained at his gun, res1sting with its implements the advancing cavalry, and thus secured the retreat of his detachment.
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Remained at his gun, resisting with its implements the advancing cavalry, and thus secured the retreat of his detachment.

Sources & record notes

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

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

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

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

    Army index identity, action metadata, and inherited OCR-rendered citation form

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000886
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Ordnance Sergeant, Ret.
Archive transcription SHA-256
74ef45c4e41d2d7ab122d758ba181d088d01a2930ee2130ab72329b594cd5fed

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

The current reference profile corrects the inherited and Army-index OCR rendering “res1sting” to “resisting.” The complete inherited citation and hash remain unchanged; the corrected current rendering is stored separately.

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