Medal of Honor
September 29, 1864
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company G, 158th New York Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Led a section of his men on the enemy's works, receiving a wound while scaling a parapet.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Thomas Meagher — 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-000959
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brevet First Lieutenant
- Entered service at
- Brooklyn N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- a68e6343e3ed89e10f4cc05ad2b94e4cdc7be70a74c2ed9dba25eee05161f598
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the recipient and award, documents McMarr, Thomas W. as an alternate name, records Brevet First Lieutenant as the highest later rank, and replaces the unrelated inherited Chapin Street geocoder result with the historical Chapin's Farm action place. The complete inherited citation remains unchanged.