Medal of Honor
December 13, 1862
Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company A, 136th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took up the colors as they fell out of the hands of the wounded color bearer and carried them forward in the charge.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Philip Petty — 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-001016
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Color Sergeant
- Entered service at
- Tioga County, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 55eec6ff10e9c7f23ea6aacd752ceb461df72e4068a12b9395945e018de6687d
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, unit, date, and citation, records Sergeant as the action rank and Color Sergeant as the highest later rank, and normalizes the historical action place.