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Medal of Honor Recipient

Josiah O. Livingston

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000905Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

February 2, 1864

Newport Barracks, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant & Adjutant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
9th Vermont Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
When, after desperate res1stance, the small garrison had been driven back to the river by a vastly superior force, this officer, while a small force held back the enemy, personally fired the railroad bridge, and, although wounded himself, ass1sted a wounded officer over the burning structure.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

When, after desperate resistance, the small garrison had been driven back to the river by a vastly superior force, this officer, while a small force held back the enemy, personally fired the railroad bridge, and, although wounded himself, assisted a wounded officer over the burning structure.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Josiah O. Livingston — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Josiah O. Livingston — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-28

    inherited/Army OCR “res1stance” and “ass1sted” citation rendering and historical action metadata

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000911
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Marshfield, Vt.
Archive transcription SHA-256
446f389f1a292a825ffd61935afdd11cfbfea66fb858752679a1a38358d68513

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

The current official profile corrects two OCR errors and replaces an unrelated inherited Ireland geocoder result with Newport Barracks, North Carolina. All inherited values remain preserved.

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