Medal of Honor
April 6, 1865
Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 57th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Capture of flag.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Lewis Francis Brest — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001823
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-29
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 478d6803fa871937c62e3aa36206219eb4cd9cbf961dd5367a3f2e3084ebae18
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current authoritative source expands, corrects, or normalizes the inherited name from Lewis F. Brest to Lewis Francis Brest; both renderings remain preserved. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved.