Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 47th Ohio Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."
Sources & record notes
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- Richard Willis Dewitt — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001427
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant
- Entered service at
- Oxford, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c9d98d3ce07aa7fc941b3e2f050b122f1749afb9fe457d17e9a11f429803968f
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Controlled archival reference search recovered the current Richard Willis Dewitt profile outside the generated candidate set. The inherited Richard W. De Witt spacing and abbreviated name remain preserved as source variants.