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Medal of Honor Recipient

Michael Madden

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000923Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1861

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Medal of Honor

September 3, 1861

Mason's Island, Maryland, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company K, 42d New York Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Assisted a wounded comrade to the riverbank and, under heavy fire of the enemy, swam with him across a branch of the Potomac to the Union lines.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Michael Madden — 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-000929
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Entered service at
New York, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
97df36ffacde5ba6e7298b36bb92fcc6c5e0f586cf0ed31c1673dca65d68368e

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

The current reference profile confirms the identity, action date, unit, and citation and replaces the unrelated inherited modern geocoder result with the historical action place, Mason's Island.

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