Medal of Honor
April 3, 1865
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 126th Ohio Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Milton Blickensderfer — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Milton Blickensderfer — U.S. Army ↗U.S. Army · Checked 2026-08-29
canonical Milton Blickensderfer spelling, corporal rank, Company E of the 126th Ohio Infantry, Petersburg action date and place, and citation text
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001819
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-29
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 478d6803fa871937c62e3aa36206219eb4cd9cbf961dd5367a3f2e3084ebae18
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited candidate set did not include the current Milton Blickensderfer reference profile. Controlled archival reference search recovered the profile; matching service, unit, action date, place, and citation establish the identity while all inherited candidates remain preserved. The exact rendered source heading “Milton Blickensderger” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “Milton Blickensderfer.”. The current profile records later/highest rank Sergeant. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. Additional authoritative source evidence is preserved to resolve or document the primary-source discrepancy without silently overwriting either source. The current reference profile heading spells the surname Blickensderger. The inherited row and official U.S. Army Medal of Honor index spell it Blickensderfer; the latter form controls the canonical display while the Society heading remains preserved exactly.