Medal of Honor
September 14, 1862
South Mountain, Maryland, USA
- Rank at action
- Brigadier General
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- U.S. Volunteers
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Porter Hatch — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- John Porter Hatch — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27
official Army U.S. Volunteers unit wording, action metadata, and citation for John Porter Hatch
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000816
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Other source unit wording
- 1st Division
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major General
- Entered service at
- New York, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0c8d780e461bdc93d91401c7ec8dae01bfbbeeb2eae2ed734382064b2c532840
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current Society structured profile uses 1st Division, while the official Army index and inherited citation identify U.S. Volunteers. U.S. Volunteers is retained canonically, 1st Division is preserved as the current structured-profile unit, and Brigadier General and later Brevet Major General remain distinct.