Medal of Honor
April 16, 1862
Lee's Mills, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company F, 3d Vermont Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Gallantly led his company across a wide, deep creek, drove the enemy from the rifle pits, which were within 2 yards of the farther bank, and remained at the head of his men until a second time severely wounded.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Gallantly led his company across a wide, deep creek, drove the enemy from the rifle pits, which were within two yards of the farther bank, and remained at the head of his men until a second time severely wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Samuel E. Pingree — 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-001021
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel
- Entered service at
- Hartford, Vt.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- e5e5492d7e5a98cebdf160c273253c131250bf986219f32ec37dcedfe08de3c2
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the identity and award, records Captain as the action rank and Colonel as the highest later rank, replaces a modern Mills Drive geocoder result with Lee's Mills, and renders the inherited numeral 2 as two.