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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Henry Mathews

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000929Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

July 30, 1864

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
First Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company E, 2d Maryland Veteran Infantry

The Citation

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Finding himself among a squad of Confederates, he fired into them, killing 1, and was himself wounded, but succeeded in bringing in a sergeant and 2 men of the 17th South Carolina Regiment (C.S.A.) as prisoners. (Enlisted in 1861 at Baltimore, Md., under the name Henry Sivel, and original Medal of Honor issued under that name. A new medal was issued in 1900 under true name, William H Mathew.)
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Finding himself among a squad of Confederates, he fired into them, killing one, and was himself wounded, but succeeded in bringing in a sergeant and two men of the 17th South Carolina Regiment (C.S.A.) as prisoners.

Sources & record notes

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  1. William Henry Mathews — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000935
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Baltimore, Md.
Archive transcription SHA-256
c4dc77aaf9556272cf989a9333301567301525abe987bf70ff2abddec87be0bd

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

The reference profile expands the name, records Henry Sivel as an alias/service name, and records Captain as the highest later rank. The current citation spells out “one” and “two” and presents the alias history outside the citation; the imported citation and its appended medal-reissue note remain preserved in full.

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