Medal of Honor
April 6, 1865
Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company H, 121st New York Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Capture of flag of Savannah Guards (C.S.A.), after 2 other men had been killed in the effort.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Capture of flag of Savannah Guards (C.S.A.), after two other men had been killed in the effort.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Warren C Dockum — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000713
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- e71dc553e620f2edbae29253601e330fd5587ca375922e3387b58d01a369fc16
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current Society evidence confirms the identity and action. The current citation spells out “two,” while the inherited citation uses the numeral “2”; both complete renderings and hashes are preserved.