Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company I, 9th Maine Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took a guidon from the hands of the bearer, mortally wounded, and advanced with it nearer to the battery than any other man.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Thomas Belcher — 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-000589
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Bangor, Maine
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 77dfd6614852cb782202fba2b648e7d09becd39b8b0c7832bf9b906a6f4547eb
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile replaces the inherited Chapin Street geocoder result with Chapin's Farm.