Medal of Honor
March 25, 1865
Fort Stedman, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Major
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 29th Massachusetts Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓This officer, observing an abandoned gun within Fort Haskell, called for volunteers, and under a heavy fire, worked the gun until the enemy's advancing line was routed.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Milton Deane — 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-000707
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 7bf5a3e05d18cfa6857a09b6f410bc265af3797afedf8228aa2cad4e5b64afd3
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
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