Medal of Honor
July 21, 1861
Bull Run, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery
The Citation
Sources ↓Through his personal exertions under a heavy fire, one of the guns of his battery was brought off the field; all the other guns were lost.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Owen McGough — 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-000951
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c0f634ef5439b9cc524f865aaf84ec6907ff23355160f8ed2de40169f8ec6e14
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the inherited identity, rank, unit, date, and citation, corrects surname capitalization, and normalizes the historical action place.