Medal of Honor
June 30, 1862
White Oak Swamp Bridge, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- 4th U.S. Artillery
The Citation
Sources ↓This officer, when his captain was wounded, succeeded to the command of two batteries while engaged against a superior force of the enemy and fought his guns most gallantly until compelled to retire.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Rufus King Jr. — 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-000892
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Major
- Entered service at
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c3e84fd6a60ff79fd69f190b8fdbc844995d599a2601e15f7eb2eaa191b6bec4
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited Jr. suffix is retained to distinguish the identity; the current reference profile supplies the historical action place and later brevet rank.