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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Marland

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-000925Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

November 3, 1863

Grand Coteau, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
2d Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery

The Citation

Sources ↓
After having been surrounded by the enemy's cavalry, his support having surrendered, he ordered a charge and saved the section of the battery that was under his command.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Marland — 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-000931
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Brevet Major
Archive transcription SHA-256
bd54ef15bf6c16f5d4dff5edb771ebe7f1ec62ed7081cb218edd3550c1da37f3

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

The current reference profile confirms the inherited identity, rank at action, unit, date, historical place, and citation, and records Brevet Major as the highest later rank.

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