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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas H. L. Payne

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001003Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

April 9, 1865

Fort Blakely, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company E, 37th Illinois Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
While acting regimental quartermaster, learning of an expected assault, requested assignment to a company that had no commissioned officers present; was so assigned, and was one of the first to lead his men into the enemy's works.
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While acting regimental quartermaster, learning of an expected assault, Payne requested assignment to a company that had no commissioned officers present; was so assigned, and was one of the first to lead his men into the enemy's works.

Sources & record notes

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  1. Thomas H. L. Payne — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001009
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Mendota, La Salle County, Ill.
Archive transcription SHA-256
8c5e15341eac12b8d43b154d95094433648629e27464dd53ae1d3e947dc344c6

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

The inherited primary Thomas H. L. Payne URL was stale. The current reference profile resolves at inherited candidate rank 3 as Thomas H. Payne. The archive retains the canonical legacy initial expansion, preserves the Society heading exactly as Thomas H. l Payne, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Captain as the highest later rank, corrects Blakely, Georgia to Fort Blakely, Alabama, and preserves the source insertion of the surname Payne in the rendered citation.

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