Medal of Honor
September 11, 1881
Fort Apache, Arizona, USA
- Rank at action
- Private First Class
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Indian Campaigns
- Unit or command
- Signal Corps, U.S. Army
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Will Croft Barnes — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-29
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Will Croft Barnes — U.S. Army ↗U.S. Army · Checked 2026-08-29
recipient identity, Private First Class rank, Signal Corps service, Fort Apache action place, action date of September 11, 1881, and citation text
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001907
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-29
- Other source date wording
- 1881-09-01
- Other source unit wording
- Signal Corps U.S. Army
- Entered service at
- Washington, D.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b22bf5a79ca14ee483cf0c3b04e88bc4714f5cfdf225aa8e2b174be713bbd033
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current authoritative source expands, corrects, or normalizes the inherited name from Will C. Barnes to Will Croft Barnes; both renderings remain preserved. The current authoritative source records Signal Corps, U.S. Army; the inherited unit field Signal Corps remains preserved as a source variant. The current reference profile records September 1, 1881 and Arizona, USA, while the inherited record and official U.S. Army Medal of Honor index identify September 11, 1881 at Fort Apache, Arizona. September 11 and Fort Apache control the canonical action fields; the Society values remain preserved as current-source variants. Additional authoritative federal evidence is preserved to document the conflict without silently overwriting the Society rendering. No General Order verification is claimed; the exact-order gate remains pending.