Medal of Honor
March 19, 1865
Bentonville, North Carolina, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 31st Wisconsin Infantry
- Presentation date
- June 16, 1865
The Citation
Sources ↓Entirely unassisted, brought from the field an abandoned piece of artillery and saved the gun from falling into the hands of the enemy.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Peter T Anderson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000571
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Captain
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 4ca827b820ff9409d9b7326999c99c40bf780cc70fd373198b41420cf15c1b41
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The canonical current profile is outside the inherited candidate set, adds the middle initial T, and preserves Private as the action rank and Brevet Captain as the later rank.