Medal of Honor
June 7, 1864
Cold Harbor, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 164th New York Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓After making a successful personal reconnaissance, he gallantly led the skirmishers in a night attack, charging the enemy, and thus enabling the pioneers to put up works.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Patrick H Doody — 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-000717
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- New York, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 90b19c9ad45ec108a507be9cb5eefda2d0a92744b309107cb021c1e5522154f0
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile was resolved through official search because the canonical middle-initial slug was outside the inherited candidate set; identity and all core action metadata match the imported record.