Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company I, 30th Ohio Infantry
- Presentation date
- July 10, 1894
The Citation
Sources ↓Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William J. Archinal — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001366
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c9d98d3ce07aa7fc941b3e2f050b122f1749afb9fe457d17e9a11f429803968f
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Controlled Society search recovered the current William J. Archinal profile outside the generated candidate set and added the middle initial. Core award metadata and citation match the inherited row.