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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Donaldson Dickey

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000705Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

June 17, 1864

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Battery M, 15th New York Heavy Artillery

The Citation

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Refused to leave the field, remaining in command after being wounded by a piece of shell, and led his command in the assault on the enemy's works on the following day.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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

Refused to leave the field, remaining in command after being wounded by a piece of shell, and led his command in the assault on the enemy's works on the following day.,Brooklyn

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Donaldson Dickey — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. William Donaldson Dickey — United States Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗United States Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

    official citation wording without the Society page’s trailing “,Brooklyn” artifact

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000711
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Newburgh, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
7ebb0bfd1d40ef89e93c762f652aeb02715ce5749f86a4caf71b939ae29e778a

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

The current Society page appends the malformed text “,Brooklyn” to the citation. The official Army index and inherited citation omit that artifact. The canonical citation retains the unchanged inherited/Army wording, while the Society rendering is preserved separately.

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