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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Plimley

U.S. Army · Civil War

MOH-RC-001020Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

April 2, 1865

Hatcher's Run, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
Company F, 120th New York Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
While acting as aide to a general officer, voluntarily accompanied a regiment in an assault on the enemy's works and acted as leader of the movement which resulted in the rout of the enemy and the capture of a large number of prisoners.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

While acting as aide to a general officer, voluntarily accompanied a regiment in an assault on the enemy's works and acted as leader of the movement which resulted in the rout of the enemy and the capture of large numbers of prisoners.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Plimley — 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-001026
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Major
Entered service at
Catskill, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
0c8d315b1ec2e723edfecc6af036f9ca64602646500072d0ff6c49e549dd966d

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

The current reference profile confirms the identity and award, records First Lieutenant as the action rank and Major as the highest later rank, replaces the inherited modern Hatcher's Run Court geocoder result with the historical place, and preserves the rendered phrase large numbers of prisoners beside the inherited a large number of prisoners.

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