Medal of Honor Recipient

Joshua B Hartzog

U.S. Army · Indian Campaigns

MOH-RC-001277Source-based record

The award

Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1890

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Rank at action: Private
Service: U.S. Army
Conflict: Indian Campaigns
Unit or command: Company E, 1st U.S. Artillery

The Citation

Went to the rescue of the commanding officer who had fallen severely wounded, picked him up, and carried him out of range of the hostile guns.

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Joshua B Hartzog — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes

Award ID: MOH-AW-001284
Transcription status: Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check: 2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank: Sergeant
Archive transcription SHA-256: 44ff61a54aeebd0c1cf038e8c757e4a0fbbe9dd0a84fd8dd92e1bafe5098d422

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

Controlled archival reference search corrected the inherited Joshija spelling to Joshua while preserving the inherited form as a source variant.