Medal of Honor
May 22, 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company A, 77th Illinois Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Carried, with others, by hand, a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Winthrop D. Putnam — 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-001040
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Other source unit wording
- Compant A, 77th Illinois Infantry
- Entered service at
- Peoria, Ill.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- aa933a5ebddc4d87c58d24edad36f74f4db5ee9ecaa669fcee70eacefaef15da
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current reference profile displays the unit typo “Compant A.” The canonical unit uses “Company A,” while the exact rendered source wording and legacy unit are both preserved.