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Medal of Honor Recipient

Theodore Safford Peck

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001006Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

February 2, 1864

Newport Barracks, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company H, 9th Vermont Infantry

The Citation

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By long and persistent resistance and burning the bridges, kept a superior force of the enemy at bay and covered the retreat of the garrison.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Theodore Safford Peck — 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-001012
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Major General
Entered service at
Burlington, Vt.
Archive transcription SHA-256
003117bbcd934d2af5471194237702e74f659de19382bdfce10802615d4d7009

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current reference profile confirms the award, expands the middle name, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Major General as the highest later rank, and corrects the inherited Newport, Ireland geocoder result to Newport Barracks, North Carolina.

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