Medal of Honor
April 6, 1862
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 20th Illinois Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Was severely wounded while endeavoring, at the risk of his life, to carry to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Wade McDonald — 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-000948
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Entered service at
- Wayneville, DeWitt County, Ill.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 6f69c7777493fcf5b83176ffadc816903b22312fc60ce24859c954ee9ed5f272
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the expanded inherited name and citation, corrects surname capitalization, and supplies the historical Pittsburg Landing place in place of the inherited park geocoder rendering.