Medal of Honor
September 17, 1862
Antietam, Maryland, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company E, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Under a most withering and concentrated fire, voluntarily picked up the colors of his regiment, when the bearer and 2 of the color guard had been killed, and bore them aloft throughout the entire battle.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Under a most withering and concentrated fire, voluntarily picked up the colors of his regiment, when the bearer and two of the color guard had been killed, and bore them aloft throughout the entire battle.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William H. Paul — 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-001007
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Sergeant
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- dbe3d760063d4c852b99418825b09745fe60f6e06a12878abec33789b2bae375
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile confirms the award, records Private as the action rank and First Sergeant as the highest later rank, normalizes the historical place, and renders the inherited numeral 2 as two.