Medal of Honor
May 23, 1864
North Anna River, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company F, 20th Indiana Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Volunteered for dangerous service and single-handedly captured 13 armed Confederate soldiers and marched them to the rear.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Volunteered for dangerous service and singlehandedly captured 13 armed Confederate soldiers and marched them to the rear.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Jonathan C. Kirk — 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-000895
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Entered service at
- Wilmington, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- acd8d017b7763f2a366d64a7a9a9575d2006299a188d5f3744b19e2db719e233
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The Society rendering uses “singlehandedly”; the inherited citation uses “single-handedly.” Both complete renderings and hashes are preserved.