Medal of Honor
May 18, 1864
Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Seized the colors, the color bearer having been shot, and with great gallantry succeeded in saving them from capture.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Kinsey — 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-000893
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0b09e11b579c3ba58babaccc35db54a1a18c2c0a6ef2ed8eefcbb3e65117db1b
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The reference profile states that John Kinsey was the service name used by John McKenzie and records McKenzie as an alias. Both names are preserved under one controlled identity; no merge or split is performed.