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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas R. Kerr

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000883Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 7, 1864

Moorefield, West Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company C, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry

The Citation

Sources ↓
After being most desperately wounded, he captured the colors of the 8th Virginia Cavalry (C.S.A.).

Sources & record notes

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  1. Thomas R. Kerr — 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-000889
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Entered service at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
ac16e21ea18aae33b79408fdd79258a9617aa25c5430cbac0912df017882879c

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

Current reference profile confirms the inherited identity, action date, unit, and full citation; the historical place is normalized from the inherited geocoder rendering.

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