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Medal of Honor Recipient

Voltaire P. Twombly

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001171Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

February 15, 1862

Fort Donelson, Tennessee, USA

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 2d Iowa Infantry

The Citation

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Took the colors after 3 of the color guard had fallen, and although most instantly knocked down by a spent ball, immediately arose and bore the colors to the end of the engagement.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Took the colors after three of the color guard had fallen, and although most instantly knocked down by a spent ball, immediately arose and bore the colors to the end of the engagement.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Voltaire P. Twombly — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Voltaire P. Twombly — The United States Army Civil War Medal of Honor recipient roll ↗The United States Army Civil War Medal of Honor recipient roll · Checked 2026-08-28

    official Army identity spelling Voltaire P. Twombly and matching action metadata

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001177
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa
Archive transcription SHA-256
73d2a87bf3633b39d9e8662eb9ca3a677f7e8f04cf805ca2e2355477efcf4c06

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

All inherited Voltaire Twombly candidates were stale. Controlled Society search recovered a profile headed Voltare Paine Twombly, while the official Army roll retains Voltaire P. Twombly, matching the inherited identity and action. The canonical identity preserves the Army/legacy Voltaire rendering; the Society heading, current URL, full middle-name rendering, citation, provenance, and checksums remain parallel evidence.

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