Medal of Honor
April 1, 1865
Five Forks, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant, Engineers
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- U.S. Engineers
The Citation
Sources ↓With one companion, voluntarily advanced in a reconnaissance beyond the skirmishers, where he was exposed to imminent peril; also, in the same battle, rode to the front with the commanding general to encourage wavering troops to resume the advance, which they did successfully.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William Henry Harrison Benyaurd — 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-000593
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Entered service at
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 33fa7f479efe706a826189a510f8a27294c9cdde6c04940a4bc40bd5ef77f2fc
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile resolves at inherited candidate rank 3, expands the full name, renders “harrison” in lowercase in the page heading, and preserves First Lieutenant, Engineers as the action rank and Lieutenant Colonel as the later rank. Canonical display uses normal title capitalization.