Medal of Honor
July 22, 1864
Decatur, Georgia, USA
- Rank at action
- Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- 63d Ohio Infantry
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 Wilson Sprague — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- John Wilson Sprague — U.S. Army Medal of Honor Roll ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor Roll · Checked 2026-08-28
preservation of the inherited/Army 22 July 1862 rendering as a conflicting official publication variant
- John Wilson Sprague — National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places — Decatur Cemetery nomination ↗National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places — Decatur Cemetery nomination · Checked 2026-08-28
July 22, 1864 date for Sprague's Decatur engagement and Medal of Honor action context
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001124
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major General
- Entered service at
- Sandusky, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0df2767ed4fe5ca05c4521497c74c17fd7365256e0cf26cc1614ddb9c4de559e
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited record and the U.S. Army web roll render July 22, 1862. The current reference profile renders July 22, 1864, and the National Park Service National Register documentation independently places Sprague's Decatur engagement on July 22, 1864 and identifies the later Medal of Honor award for that action. The canonical action date is therefore 1864-07-22; the legacy and Army 1862 renderings remain preserved as documented publication variants. No General Order verification is claimed.