Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 37th Ohio Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily and under fire went to the rescue of a wounded comrade Iying between the lines, gave him water, and brought him off the field.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Voluntarily and under fire went to the rescue of a wounded comrade lying between the lines, gave him water, and brought him off the field.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Joseph Hanks — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000802
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Entered service at
- Chillicothe, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- e09e729a83a79effc0f82c62fa4d7d76086a9300d25ee549f4fa3de88d11e979
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current Society citation corrects the inherited transcription artifact “Iying” to “lying.” The inherited text and checksum remain unchanged; the current official rendering is stored separately.