Medal of Honor
May 1, 1863
Chancellorsville, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 7th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took up the colors from the hands of the color bearer who had been shot down and bore them through the remainder of the battle.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Stephen O'Neill — 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-000993
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Ordance Sergeant Ret.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- fd4a28933d8838715260d5b647effe0be68252c1486f9b9a5d366ef1c621cedd
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 and award, normalizes the unit punctuation, and renders the highest later rank as “Ordance Sergeant Ret.” That official rendering is preserved exactly rather than silently corrected.