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Medal of Honor Recipient

Joseph Olds Gregg

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000783Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

June 16, 1864

near the Richmond & Petersburg Railway, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 133d Ohio National Guard Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily returned to the breastworks which his regiment had been forced to abandon to notify 3 missing companies that the regiment was falling back; found the enemy already in the works, refused a demand to surrender, returning to his command under a concentrated fire, several bullets passing through his hat and clothing.
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Voluntarily returned to the breastworks, which his regiment had been forced to abandon, to notify three missing companies that the regiment was falling back; found the enemy already in the works, refused a demand to surrender, returning to his command under a concentrated fire, several bullets passing through his hat and clothing.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Joseph Olds Gregg — 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-000789
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Archive transcription SHA-256
eefdc8b434d468612d322cb7989f06607b959bb00a97a985e66f990552813334

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current profile expands Joseph Gregg's middle name and unit to the 133d Ohio National Guard Infantry. It also spells out three where the inherited citation uses 3. Both complete citation versions and all inherited metadata remain preserved.

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