Medal of Honor
April 30, 1863
Chancellorsville, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company C, 6th New York Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓Took command of the regiment as its senior officer when surrounded by Stuart's Cavalry. The regiment cut its way through the enemy's line and escaped but Capt. Heermance was desperately wounded, left for dead on the field and was taken prisoner.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Took command of the regiment as its senior officer when surrounded by Stuart's Cavalry. The regiment cut its way through the enemy's line and escaped, but Capt. Heermance was desperately wounded, left for dead on the field and was taken prisoner.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William Laing Heermance — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000821
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Entered service at
- Kinderhook, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- e0c1d59022b5bab5d0b85bcb7c7487fa7628af4fe6d9e3e21e990b27121fe4c4
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile expands the middle name and supplies historical action-place wording. The inherited modern postal rendering remains preserved.