Medal of Honor
December 2, 1863
Walker’s Ford, Tennessee, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company H, 5th Indiana Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓Voluntarily passed through the enemy's lines under fire and conveyed to a battalion, then in a perilous position and liable to capture, information which enabled it to reach a point of safety.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Louis J Bruner — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000625
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Quartermaster Sergeant
- Entered service at
- Clifty Brumer, Ind.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 6781b23821e11205f3cf0ef12907d76f53c1a78096b95ee3e4ea1c1bf382afe5
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited modern road geocoder result with Walker’s Ford and preserves Private as the action rank and Quartermaster Sergeant as the later/highest rank.