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Medal of Honor Recipient

Uriah H Brown

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000617Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

May 22, 1863

Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Company G, 30th Ohio Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Despite the death of his captain at his side during the assault he continued carrying his log to the defense ditch. While he was laying his log in place he was shot down and thrown into the water. Unmindful of his own wound he, despite the intense fire, dragged 5 of his comrades from the ditch, wherein they lay wounded, to a place of safety.
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Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Despite the death of his captain at his side during the assault, he continued carrying his log to the defense ditch. While he was laying his log in place he was shot down and thrown into the water. Unmindful of his own wound he, despite the intense fire, dragged five of his comrades from the ditch, wherein they lay wounded, to a place of safety.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Uriah H Brown — 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-000623
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Corporal
Archive transcription SHA-256
b01436d1fcdc128db98da6f98914127d3460e557131bca1221bae2dd4f4fc962

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

The current reference profile adds the middle initial H, spells out five, and preserves Private as the action rank and Corporal as the later/highest rank. The current canonical profile was outside the inherited candidate set.

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