Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant & Adjutant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- 6th U.S. Colored Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took up the flag after 3 color bearers had been shot down and bore it forward, though himself wounded.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Took up the flag after three color bearers had been shot down and bore it forward, though himself wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Nathan Huntley Edgerton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000730
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Entered service at
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 7eb2db5841980ce1e23db6271182de566bd086edca0cca65ed7b9aa793964254
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current Society citation spells out “three,” while the inherited text uses the numeral 3; both complete texts and hashes are preserved.