Medal of Honor
1864-05-06
Wilderness Campaign, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company A, 143d Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Running ahead of the line, under a concentrated fire, he shot the color bearer of a Confederate regiment on the works, thus contributing to the success of the attack.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Patrick Delacey — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002844
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-01
- Entered service at
- Scranton, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b728625a1a97bd8d2f70d4272f963a28f4609c1b62b44c90282e2c26d7e6d6d0
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Controlled archival reference search resolved the De Lacey/Delacey spelling outside the inherited candidate set; the legacy form remains an alias.