Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 22d Iowa Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Led his company in the assault on the enemy's works and gained the parapet, there receiving 3 very severe wounds. He lay all day in the sun, was taken prisoner, and had his leg amputated without anesthetics.
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Led his company in the assault on the enemy's works and gained the parapet, there receiving three very severe wounds. He lay all day in the sun, was taken prisoner, and had his leg amputated without anesthetics.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Leonidas Mahlon Godley — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000777
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Entered service at
- Ashland, Iowa
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- dd38282fe640c729292c8ec15a0022ffd0d3d0c294ba35e17ae5b14a9cc7eacb
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile expands Leonidas M. Godley to Leonidas Mahlon Godley and spells out “three” where the inherited text uses the numeral 3. Both complete citations and hashes remain preserved.