Medal of Honor
April 6, 1865
Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company D, 37th Massachusetts Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Saved the life of the adjutant of his regiment by voluntarily going beyond the line and there killing one of the enemy then in the act of firing upon the wounded officer. Was assailed by several of the enemy, run through the body with a bayonet, and pinned to the ground, but while so. situated he shot and killed his assailant.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Saved the life of the adjutant of his regiment by voluntarily going beyond the line and there killing one of the enemy then in the act of firing upon the wounded officer. Was assailed by several of the enemy, run through the body with a bayonet, and pinned to the ground, but while so situated he shot and killed his assailant.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Samuel E Eddy — 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-000729
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Entered service at
- Chesterfield, Mass.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 1636ebc4db208d97e74d26ea9c9a7e296454e8db6d5eadc5868f6ea45ffca868
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current Society citation corrects the inherited “while so. situated” transcription artifact; both full texts and hashes are preserved.