Medal of Honor
October 27, 1864
Boydton Plank Road, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company G, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Checked the rout and rallied the troops of his command in the face of a terrible fire of musketry; was severely wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Sylvester Bonnaffon Jr — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000607
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
- Entered service at
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b45e3ab2a70c7f5aca51e5c36bb3f90b0ceb90e18ba796bcfd93c40e735341ee
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the suffix and preserves First Lieutenant as the action rank and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel as the later/highest rank.