Medal of Honor
September 18, 1879
Las Animas Canyon, New Mexico, USA
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Indian Campaigns
- Unit or command
- 9th U.S. Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓Advanced alone into the enemy's lines and carried off a wounded soldier of his command under a hot fire and after he had been ordered to retreat.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Matthias Walter Day — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001267
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel, Ret.
- Entered service at
- Oberlin, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 99d45f9d30f540d98172c0ab8c167ab086cee6a4db140faff9ae78aea4d87c17
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.