Medal of Honor
November 16, 1863
Lenoire, Tennessee, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company C, 17th Michigan Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓While color bearer of his regiment, having been twice wounded and the sight of one eye destroyed, still held to the colors until ordered to the rear by his regimental commander.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
While color bearer of his regiment, having been twice wounded and had the sight of one eye destroyed, Brandle still held to the colors until ordered to the rear by his regimental commander.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Joseph E Brandle — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000614
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Color Sergeant
- Entered service at
- Colon, Mich.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c82e4f34b9612402380e206e260c83b5b868de4d3912e8645b7ea073e48d6d50
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited modern street geocoder result with the historical Lenoire action place, preserves Private as the action rank and Color Sergeant as the later/highest rank, and supplies the current rendered citation.