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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Jackson Palmer

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000996Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 14, 1865

Red Hill, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Colonel
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

The Citation

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With less than 200 men, attacked and defeated a superior force of the enemy, capturing their fieldpiece and about 100 prisoners without losing a man.
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With less than 200 men attacked and defeated a superior force of the enemy, capturing their fieldpiece and about 100 prisoners without losing a man.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Jackson Palmer — 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-001002
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Brevet Brigadier General
Entered service at
Philadelphia, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
e8b3f62cea0fbad6fe755f75130642217403c907d17a19b756903b8ab3f16e1d

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

The current reference profile confirms the award, expands the middle name, records Colonel as the action rank and Brevet Brigadier General as the highest later rank, removes an inherited comma after men in the rendered citation, and replaces a modern ZIP-code geocoder result with the historical action place.

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