This is a complete alphabetical list (M to P) of Medal of Honor recipients during the Civil War. Many of the awards during the Civil War were for capturing or saving regimental flags. During the Civil War, regimental flags served as the rallying point for the unit, and guided the unit's movements. Loss of the flag could greatly disrupt a unit, and could have a greater effect than the death of the commanding officer.
See main article: Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government and is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself "...conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States..." Due to the nature of this medal, it is commonly presented posthumously.[1]
Recipients are listed alphabetically by last name. Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk.
Recipients are listed alphabetically by last name. Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk.
| Image | Name | Service | Rank | Unit/Command | Place of action | Date of action | Notes | |
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| Army | First Lieutenant | 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee | Father of General Douglas MacArthur, who also was awarded a Medal of Honor | ||||
| Navy | Boy | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Brooklyn during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Navy | Captain of the Top | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Brooklyn during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard | – | As seaman on board USS Hendrick Hudson, St. Marks, Florida, 5 and 6 March 1865, Mack served with the Army in charge of Navy howitzers during the attack on St. Marks and, throughout this fierce engagement, made remarkable efforts in assisting transport of the gun. | ||||
| Marine Corps | Corporal | Aboard, Drewry's Bluff | Serving aboard USS Galena Mackie was the first Marine to receive the Medal of Honor. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Masons Island, Maryland | Assisted a wounded comrade to the riverbank and, under heavy fire of the enemy, swam with him across a branch of the Potomac to the Union lines. | ||||
| Navy | Coal Heaver | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Brooklyn during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company E, 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia | Recapture of General Crook's headquarters flag. | ||||
| Army | Drummer | Company C, 33rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry | Third Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. | In a charge, was among the first to reach a battery of the enemy and, with one or two others, mounted the artillery horses and took two guns into the Union lines. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company A, 29th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee | Capture of flag of 17th Mississippi Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company B, 4th New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Front Royal, Virginia | Capture of flag of 3d Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Private | Company H, 148th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry | Hatcher's Run, Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Capture of flag of 8th Mississippi Infantry (C.S.A.) | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 29th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee | Capture of flag of 17th Mississippi Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | 2nd Massachusetts Battery | Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana | 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. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company F, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Sergeant Marquette, although wounded, was one of the first to plant colors on the enemy's breastworks. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company B, 64th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Captured the enemy flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 1st Connecticut | Back Creek Valley, Virginia | Capture of flag and its bearer. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company D, 104th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Elk River, Tennessee | Voluntarily led a small party and, under a heavy fire, captured a stockade and saved the bridge. | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Securely lashed to the side of Oneida which had suffered the loss of her steering apparatus and an explosion of her boiler from enemy fire, Galena aided the stricken vessel past the enemy forts to safety. Despite heavy damage to his ship from raking enemy fire, Martin performed his duties with skill and courage throughout the action | |||||
| Army | Sergeant |  Company B, 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment | Millerstown, Pennsylvania | Enlisted under the name Martin Schwenk, medal was issued under that name. | ||||
| Marine Corps | Sergeant | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Sgt. Martin fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious two hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan. | |||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company K, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Globe Tavern, Virginia | Gallantly made a most dangerous reconnaissance, discovering the position of the enemy and enabling the division to repulse an attack made in strong force. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Yazoo River Expedition | Serving as boatswain's mate on board USS Benton during the attack on Hayne's Bluff, Yazoo River, 27 December 1862. | |||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | Captain of a gun on board USS Varuna during an attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company K, 21st Ohio Infantry | Great Locomotive Chase, Georgia | Fourth person to receive Medal of Honor | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company E, 2nd Maryland Veteran Infantry | Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Virginia | Enlisted under the name Henry Sivel, and original Medal of Honor issued under that name. A new medal was issued in 1900 under true name. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company A, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Voluntarily took the colors, whose bearer had been disabled, and, although himself severely wounded, carried the same until the enemy's works were taken. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Capture of flag of 7th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 10th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Jonesborough, Georgia | Capture of flag of 6th and 7th Arkansas Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Major | 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Displayed extraordinary gallantry in leading a charge of his regiment which resulted in the capture of a large number of prisoners and a stand of colors. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company F, 7th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry | Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia | Though severely wounded and in face of a deadly fire from the enemy at short range, he rushed bravely forward and was among the first to enter the enemy's works on the crest of Marye's Heights and helped to plant his regimental colors there. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company H, 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee | Ran ahead of his regiment over the enemy's works and captured from its bearer the flag of Bouanchaud's Battery from Louisiana serving in the Confederate States Army. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company F, 1st Delaware Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. | Captured the enemy flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 11th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Near Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia | With one companion and under a fierce fire from the enemy at short range went to the rescue of a wounded comrade who had fallen between the lines and carried him to a place of safety. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia | A wounded and helpless comrade, having been left on the skirmish line, this soldier voluntarily returned to the front under a severe fire and carried the wounded man to a place of safety. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company A, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry | Salem Heights, Virginia | Went 250 yards in front of his regiment toward the position of the enemy and under fire brought within the lines a wounded and unconscious comrade. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | , Company D, 3rd Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry | Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Virginia | Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own. | ||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | In a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy captured a flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | 24th Missouri Infantry | Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi | While on duty as provost marshal, voluntarily assumed command of his company, then under fire, and so continued in command until the repulse and retreat of the enemy on the following day, the loss to this company during the battle being very great. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Conspicuous gallantry as color bearer in the assault on Fort Gregg. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company C, 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee | Capture of flag of 4th Florida Infantry (C.S.A.), while in advance of his lines. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Navy | First Class Fireman | Aboard, Siege of Port Hudson | Serving on board USS Richmond in the attack on Port Hudson, 14 March 1863. Damaged by a 6-inch solid rifle shot which shattered the starboard safety-valve chamber and also damaged the port safety-valve, the fireroom of Richmond immediately became filled with steam to place it in an extremely critical condition. Acting courageously in this crisis, McClelland persisted in penetrating the steam-filled room in order to haul the hot fires of the furnaces and continued this gallant action until the gravity of the situation had lessened. | |||||
| Army | Captain | Company H, 119th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | While leading his company in an assault, Capt. McConnell braved an intense fire that mowed down his unit. Upon reaching the breastworks he found that he had only one member of his company with him, Private Wagner. He was so close to an enemy gun that the blast knocked him down a ditch. Getting up, he entered the gun pit, the guncrew fleeing before him. About 30 paces away he saw a Confederate flag bearer and guard which he captured with the last shot in his pistol. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Red River Campaign | Served as boatswain's mate on board USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864. Proceeding up the Red River, USS Signal engaged a large force of enemy field batteries and sharpshooters, returning the fire until the ship was totally disabled, at which time the white flag was raised. Serving as gun captain and wounded early in the battle, McCormick bravely stood by his gun in the face of the enemy fire until ordered to withdraw. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company I, 127th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company L, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment | Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Yazoo River Expedition | – | Serving on board USS Baron de Kalb, Yazoo River Expedition, 23 to 27 December 1862. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company E, 20th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee | Was severely wounded while endeavoring, at the risk of his life, to carry to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company A, 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company D, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Opequon, Virginia | Capture of colors of 36th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company E, 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Captured Colonel Barker, commanding the Confederate brigade that charged the Union batteries; on the same day rescued Lieutenant George W. Harmon of his regiment from the enemy. | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Forecastle | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | For not leaving his post while under fire during successful action against Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company F, 54th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Army | Captain and Assistant Quartermaster | Quartermaster Corps Army of the Shenandoah (Union) | Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia | While acting chief quartermaster of General Sheridan's forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley was severely wounded while voluntarily leading a brigade of infantry and was commended for the greatest gallantry by General Sheridan. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery | First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia | Through his personal exertions under a heavy fire, one of the guns of his battery was brought off the field; all the other guns were lost. | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | McGowan occupied one of the most responsible positions on USS Varuna during the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip and in action against the rebel ship Morgan on 24 April 1862. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company B, 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | One of the three soldiers most conspicuous for gallantry in the final assault. | ||||
| Army | Private | Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery Light Artillery | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's work. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company H, 26th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Captured a Confederate color in a charge, threw the flag over in front of the works, and continued in the charge upon the enemy. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, Operations against Vicksburg | Serving on board USS Cincinnati during the attack on the Vicksburg batteries and at the time of her sinking, 27 May 1863. | |||||
| Navy | Captain of the Top | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company C, 154th New York Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Rocky Face Ridge, Dug Gap, Georgia | Voluntarily risked his life in rescuing under the fire of the enemy a wounded comrade who was lying between the lines. | ||||
| Army | Color Sergeant | Company D, 89th New York Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Gallantry as color bearer in the assault on Fort Gregg | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company H, 21st Illinois Infantry Regiment | Stone River, Tennessee and Battle of Hoover's Gap, Liberty Gap, Tennessee | and | Conspicuous in the charge at Stone River, Tennessee, where he was three times wounded. At Liberty Gap, Tennessee, captured colors of 8th Arkansas Infantry (C.S.A.). | |||
| Army | Private | Company K, 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment | Burnt Ordinary, Virginia | Was one of a small scouting party that charged and routed a mounted force of the enemy six times their number. He led the charge in a most gallant and distinguished manner, going far beyond the call of duty. | ||||
| Navy | Coxswain | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | Captain of a gun on board USS during the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip and in action against the rebel ship Morgan, 24 April 1862. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company B, 58th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Foretop | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | – | Captain of foretop, and a volunteer from the Colorado, McLeod served on board USS Pensacola during the attack upon Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the taking of New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. Acting as gun captain of the rifled howitzer aft which was much exposed, he served this piece with great ability and activity, although no officer superintended it. | ||||
| Army | Captain | U.S. Volunteers Army of the Potomac | Battle of White Oak Swamp, Virginia | Under fire of the enemy, successfully destroyed a valuable train that had been abandoned and prevented it from falling into the hands of the enemy. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company C, 110th Ohio Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company D, 49th New York Infantry | Fredericksburg Heights, Virginia | Shot a Confederate color bearer and seized the flag; also approached, alone, a barn between the lines and demanded and received the surrender of a number of the enemy therein. | ||||
| Army | Commissary Sergeant | Company E, 3rd West Virginia Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag of 6th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A.) | ||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard, First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher | – | Served on board during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864, to 22 February 1865. | ||||
| Army | Farrier | Company I, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Opequon, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company G, 158th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia | Led a section of his men on the enemy's works, receiving a wound while scaling a parapet. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | With five volunteers he gallantly charged on a number of the enemy's sharpshooters concealed in a log house, captured them, and brought them into the Union lines. | ||||
| Navy | Ordinary Seaman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board the flagship during action against rebel gunboats, the ram Tennessee, and Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company D, 5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel | 73rd Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | Volunteered to attack the enemy's works in advance of orders and, upon permission being given, made a most gallant assault. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company C, 88th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Franklin, Tennessee | Captured two battle flags from the enemy and returned with them to his own lines. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company B, 1st Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | With 6 men, captured 69 Confederate prisoners and recaptured several soldiers who had fallen into the enemy's hands. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company I, 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry | Second Battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina | Voluntarily advanced with the head of the column and cut down the palisading. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company I, 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry | First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia | Gallantry in action; was wounded while capturing flag in advance of his regiment. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company K, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | During an assault and in the face of a heavy fire rendered heroic assistance to a wounded and helpless officer, thereby saving his life and in the performance of this gallant act sustained a severe wound. Buried in Rosedale Cemetery.[2] | ||||
| Navy | Engineer's Cook | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Colonel | 61st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia | – | Holding with his command an advanced position against repeated assaults by the enemy. | |||
| Marine Corps | Sergeant | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Served board USS Richmond during Battle of Fort Morgan. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company M, 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag of 25th Battalion Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.); was taken prisoner, but successfully retained his trophy until recaptured. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company B, 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company G, 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard | Served as quartermaster on board the U.S. steam gunboat off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, during an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Acting courageously under the fierce hostile fire, Miller behaved gallantly throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's withdrawal and abandonment of its arms. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 4th Iowa Cavalry | Selma, Alabama | Capture of standard of 12th Mississippi Cavalry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company G, 8th Ohio Infantry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | for capture of 2 flags | ||||
| Army | Private | Company H, 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia | for capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company H, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Without orders, led a charge of his squadron upon the flank of the enemy, checked his attack, and cut off and dispersed the rear of his column. | ||||
| Navy | Quarter Gunner | Aboard, First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher | – | Milliken served on board during action in several attacks on Fort Fisher, 24 and 25 December 1864 and 13, 14 and 15 January 1865. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, Second Battle of Fort Fisher | On board , in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865. | |||||
| Army | Corporal | Company C, 1st New York Mounted Rifles Regiment | Sandy Cross Roads, North Carolina | While scouting, this soldier, in command of an advance of but 3 or 4 men, came upon the enemy, and charged them without orders, the rest of the troops following, the whole force of the enemy, 120 men, being captured. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company I, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia | As aide de camp led the charge with a part of a regiment, pierced the enemy's center, silenced some of his artillery, and, getting in his rear, caused him to abandon his position. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company A, 105th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Capture of flag of 18th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.), in a personal encounter with the color bearer. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Capture of the flag of the Tennessee Brigade (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company C, 16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia | Voluntarily took up the regimental colors after several color bearers had been shot down and carried them until himself wounded. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Was one of a detachment of 20 picked artillerymen who voluntarily accompanied an infantry assaulting party and who turned upon the enemy the guns captured in the assault. | ||||
| Navy | Ordinary Seaman | Aboard | Served on board during the engagement near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, 2 March 1864. | |||||
| Army | Corporal | Company F, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Recapture of colors of 7th New York Heavy Artillery. | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Afterguard | Aboard, First Battle of Fort Fisher | Montgomery served on board , as one of a volunteer crew of a powder boat which was exploded near Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864. | |||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard | Serving on board the U.S. steam gunboat off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, during an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. | |||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard off Cherbourg, France | Served as seaman on board when she destroyed the raider Alabama off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864. | |||||
| Army | Corporal | Company E, 11th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | At the risk of his own life saved the life of an officer who had been shot down and overpowered by superior numbers. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, loss of | Served on board which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of , 30 December 1862. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 117th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee | Captured flag of a Confederate battery while far in advance of the Union lines. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard | Serving as boatswain's mate on board during the attack on Hayne's Bluff, Yazoo River, 27 December 1862. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 82nd Ohio Infantry | Battle of McDowell, Virginia | After the charge of the command had been repulsed, he rushed forward alone with an empty gun and captured two of the enemy's sharpshooters. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Top | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | As captain of a gun on board USS Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company I, 4th Ohio Infantry | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Capture of flag from the enemy's works. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company A, 4th Iowa Cavalry | Columbus, Georgia | Capture of flag inside the enemy's works, contesting for its possession with its bearer. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company B, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Rappahannock Station, Virginia | Learning that an assault was to be made upon the enemy's works by other troops, this officer voluntarily joined the storming party with about 50 men of his regiment, and by his dash and gallantry rendered effective service in the assault. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company C, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag of 40th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.).[3] | ||||
| Army | Private | Company H, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry | Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Virginia | Voluntarily exposed himself to a heavy fire to bring off a wounded comrade. | ||||
| Navy | Coxswain | Aboard | Serving as coxswain on board , Morrison was commended for meritorious conduct in general and especially for his heroic conduct and his inspiring example to the crew in the engagement with the rebel ram Arkansas, Yazoo River, 15 July 1862. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Capture of colors of 4th Georgia Battery (C.S.A.) | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company I, 62nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia | Voluntarily rushed back into the enemy's lines, took the colors from the color sergeant, who was mortally wounded, and, although himself wounded, carried them through the fight. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Yazoo River Expedition | – | For extraordinary heroism onboard during the expedition. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia | Voluntarily led a charge on a Confederate battery (the officers of the company being disabled) and compelled its hasty removal. | ||||
| Army | Major | 116th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia | – | In command of the picket line held the enemy in check all night to cover the retreat of the Army. | |||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Mattox Creek | Served as boatswain's mate on board during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865. | |||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard | For extraordinary heroism onboard where he saved an officer from drowning | |||||
| Army | Corporal | Company E, 5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company A, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | – | Gallant and courageous conduct as color bearer. (This noncommissioned officer carried the colors of his regiment through 13 engagements.) | |||
| Army | First Lieutenant and Quartermaster | 38th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment "Second Scott's Life Guard" | First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia | Took a rifle and voluntarily fought with his regiment in the ranks; when the regiment was forced back, voluntarily remained on the field caring for the wounded, and was there taken prisoner. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company F, 19th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Hatchers Run, Virginia | Capture of flag of 47th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company F, 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry | Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi | Although wounded three times, carried the colors throughout the conflict. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company L, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment | Battle of Fort Stedman, Petersburg, Virginia | A piece of artillery having been silenced by the enemy, this soldier voluntarily assisted in working the piece, conducting himself throughout the engagement in a gallant and fearless manner. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 5th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Antietam, Maryland | Capture of flag of 13th Alabama Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel | 170th New York Volunteer Infantry | Battle of North Anna, Virginia | This officer, commanding the regiment, kept it on the field exposed to the fire of the enemy for 3 hours without being able to fire one shot in return because of the ammunition being exhausted. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Served as boatswain's mate on board , during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Musician | Company A, 127th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Ezra Church, Atlanta, Georgia | Being orderly to the brigade commander, he voluntarily led two regiments as reinforcements into line of battle, where he had his horse shot under him. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company K, 158th New York Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company I, 31st Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Voluntarily crossed the line of heavy fire of Union and Confederate forces, carrying a message to stop the firing of one Union regiment on another. | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company G, 146th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Five Forks, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company F, 101st Ohio Infantry | Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia | Saved the regimental colors by greatest personal devotion and bravery. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company A, 1st Maryland Cavalry | Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia | Gallantry in action; was 5 times wounded. |
Recipients are listed alphabetically by last name. Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk.
| Image | Name | Service | Rank | Unit/Command | Place of action | Date of action | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | Corporal | Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Was one of a party that volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores. | ||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | For his actions while on board USS Oneida in the engagement at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 | |||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry | Second Battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina | Voluntarily advanced with the head of the column and cut down the palisading. | ||||
| Navy | Quarter Gunner | Aboard, First Battle of Fort Fisher | For his actions while serving on board USS Agawam, as one of a volunteer crew of a powder boat which was exploded near Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 | |||||
| Army | Captain | Company C, 1st Connecticut Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of the enemy flag | ||||
| Navy | Ordinary Seaman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Newland distinguished himself on board USS Oneida for his good conduct and faithful discharge of his station, behaving splendidly under the fire of the enemy and throughout the battle which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee and the damaging of Fort Morgan. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 111th Illinois Infantry | Battle of Resaca, Georgia | Voluntarily returned, in the face of a severe fire from the enemy, and rescued a wounded comrade who had been left behind as the regiment fell back. | ||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company B, 86th New York Infantry | Near Amelia Springs, Virginia | Capture of the enemy flag | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard | Served as quartermaster on board USS Petrel during its capture in Yazoo River, 22 April 1864. | |||||
| Army | Captain | 73rd Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | Voluntarily made a reconnaissance in advance of the line held by his regiment and, under a heavy fire, obtained information of great value. | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company H, 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia | Capture of two flags | ||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | As landsman on board , Noble served among the boat's crew which went to the rescue of the U.S. monitor when that vessel was struck by a torpedo in passing enemy forts in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company K, 8th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Georgia Landing, Louisiana | Although prostrated by a cannon shot, refused to give up the flag which he was carrying as color bearer of his regiment and continued to carry it at the head of the regiment throughout the engagement. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company D, 20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Seized the colors, the color bearer having been shot down, and gallantly fought his way out with them, though the enemy were on the left flank and rear. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company H, 6th Michigan Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Rushed ahead of his column and captured the flag of the 44th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company M, 1st New York ("Lincoln Cavalry") Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of the enemy flag | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company L, 10th New York Volunteer Cavalry ("Porter Guard") | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Charged the enemy and, with the assistance of Corporal Bringle, captured a fieldpiece with two prisoners. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company F, 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia | Standing upon the top of the breastworks, deliberately took aim and fired no less than 15 shots into the enemy's lines, but a few yards away. | ||||
| Marine Corps | Orderly Sergeant | Aboard | For his actions while serving on board , Crystal River, Florida, 15 June 1863. | |||||
| Army | Captain | Company C, 61st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Todd's Tavern, Virginia | Led the regiment in charge at a critical moment under a murderous fire until he fell desperately wounded. |
Recipients are listed alphabetically by last name. Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk.
| Image | Name | Service | Rank | Unit/Command | Place of action | Date of action | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | Captain | Company C, 37th New York Volunteer Infantry (Irish Rifles) | Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia | – | Gallantly maintained the line of battle until ordered to fall back. | |||
| Army | Corporal | Company E, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Taking up the colors where they had fallen, he rushed ahead of his regiment, close to the muzzles of the enemy's guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time. | ||||
| Navy | Coxswain | Aboard | Served as coxswain on board the U.S. sloop John Adams, Sullivan's Island Channel, 28 November 1864. Taking part in the boarding of the blockade runner SS Beatrice (UK registry) while under heavy enemy fire from Fort Moultrie, O'Brien, who was in charge of one of the boarding launches, carried out his duties with prompt and energetic conduct. This action resulted in the firing of Beatrice and the capture of a quantity of supplies from her. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company A, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry "Lincoln Cavalry" | Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia | Capture of flag and of a Confederate officer with his horse and equipment | ||||
| Navy | Coal Heaver | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board the flagship USS Hartford, during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company A, 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Gravelly Run, Virginia | – | On 31 March 1865, with a comrade, recaptured a Union officer from a detachment of 9 Confederates, capturing 3 of the detachment and dispersing the remainder, and on 1 April 1865, seized a stand of Confederate colors, killing a Confederate officer in a hand-to-hand contest over the colors and retaining the colors until surrounded by Confederates and compelled to relinquish them. | |||
| Army | Private | Company E, 1st U.S. Cavalry Regiment | Malvern, Virginia | Private O'Connor captured the flag of the Confederate 18th North Carolina Infantry. For extreme bravery, he was awarded the Medal of Honor on January 5, 1865 and later achieved the rank of Sergeant. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company D, 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company A, 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi and Fort DeRussey, Louisiana | and | Voluntarily joined the color guard in the assault on the enemy's works when he saw indications of wavering and caused the colors of his regiment to be planted on the parapet. Voluntarily placed himself in the ranks of an assaulting column (being then on staff duty) and rode with it into the enemy's works, being the only mounted officer present, was twice wounded in battle. | |||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard, Red River Campaign | Served as boatswain's mate on board USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company M, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Stedman, Petersburg, Virginia | Capture of flag of 31st Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company D, 12th New York Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Resaca, Georgia | While acting as aide assisted in preventing a disaster caused by Union troops firing into each other | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company E, 7th U. S. Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia | Took up the colors from the hands of the color bearer who had been shot down and bore them through the remainder of the battle. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company G, 7th Indiana Infantry Regiment | Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia | Capture of flag of 50th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 58th Ohio Infantry | Shiloh, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi, etc. | – | Gallantry in actions. | |||
| Army | Private | Company G, 187th New York Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Petersburg, Virginia | This soldier and two others, voluntarily and under fire, rescued several wounded and helpless soldiers. | ||||
| Army | Major | 61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Carried the colors at the head of the column in the assault after two color bearers had been shot down. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard | Served as seaman during actions on two occasions. Carrying out his duties courageously during these actions, Ortega conducted himself gallantly through both periods. Promoted to acting master's mate. | |||||
| Army | Corporal | Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Antietam, Maryland | Capture of flag of 7th South Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.), in hand-to-hand encounter, although he was wounded in the shoulder. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 29th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia | Although wounded and carried to the rear, he secured a rifle and voluntarily returned to the front, where, failing to find his own regiment, he joined another and fought with it until again severely wounded and taken prisoner. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 11th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia | Remained in the rifle pits after the others had retreated, firing constantly, and contesting the ground step by step. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 83rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Marine Corps | Corporal | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | For actions against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay. |
Recipients are listed alphabetically by last name. Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk.
| Image | Name | Service | Rank | Unit/Command | Place of action | Date of action | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | Private | Company E, 5th New York Cavalry Regiment | Raccoon Ford, Virginia | After his command had retreated, this soldier, voluntarily and alone, returned to the assistance of a comrade and rescued him from the hands of three armed Confederates. | ||||
| George H. Palmer | Army | Musician | 1st Illinois Cavalry Regiment | Lexington, Missouri | Volunteered to fight in the trenches and also led a charge which resulted in the recapture of a Union hospital, together with Confederate sharpshooters then occupying the same. | |||
| Army | Corporal | 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia | First of six men who volunteered to assist gunner of a battery upon which the enemy was concentrating its fire, and fought with the battery until the close of the engagement. His commanding officer felt he would never see this man alive again. | ||||
| Army | Colonel | 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry | Red Hill, Alabama | Attacked and defeated a superior force of the enemy without losing a man. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company B, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia and Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | and | Planted the first color on the enemy's works. Carried the regimental colors over the creek after the regiment had broken and been repulsed. | |||
| Navy | Captain of the Afterguard | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | – | At the wheel on board USS Cayuga during the capture of Forts St. Philip and Jackson, and New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Forecastle | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company A, 9th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia | While alone and in advance of his unit and attempting to cut off the retreat of a supply wagon, he fought and sent to flight a Confederate color bearer. After capturing the color bearer and leaving him in the rear, he returned to the front and captured three more wagons and drivers. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company F, 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee | Capture of flag | ||||
| Army | Private | Company K, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Great Locomotive Chase, Georgia | First Medal of Honor recipient. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company B, 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment | Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia | Under the heavy fire of the advancing enemy, picked up and carried several hundred yards to a place of safety a wounded officer of his regiment who was helpless and would otherwise have been burned in the forest. | ||||
| Army | Principal Musician | 122nd Ohio Infantry | Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia | With one companion, voluntarily went in front of the Union line, under a heavy fire from the enemy, and carried back a helpless wounded comrade, thus saving him from death or capture. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company E, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Antietam, Maryland | Under a most withering and concentrated fire, voluntarily picked up the colors of his regiment, when the bearer and 2 of the color guard had been killed, and bore them aloft throughout the entire battle. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company H, 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Nolensville, Tennessee | Was one of a detachment of 16 men who heroically defended a wagon train against the attack of 125 cavalry, repulsed the attack and saved the train. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company M, 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of Virginia State colors. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company E, 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | While acting regimental quartermaster, learning of an expected assault, requested assignment to a company that had no commissioned officers present; was so assigned, and was one of the first to lead his men into the enemy's works. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company C, 30th Ohio Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." | ||||
| Army | Colonel | 155th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Lewis's Farm, Virginia | Seeing a brigade forced back by the enemy, he seized his regimental color, called on his men to follow him, and advanced upon the enemy under a severe fire. The whole brigade took up the advance, the lost ground was regained, and the enemy was repulsed. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard off Cherbourg, France | Served as seaman on board USS Kearsarge when she destroyed the raider Alabama off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864. | |||||
| Army | Private | Company F, 1st United States Sharpshooters | Near Blackburn's Ford, Virginia | Took command of such soldiers as he could get and attacked and captured a Confederate battery of four guns. Also, while on a reconnaissance, overtook and captured a Confederate soldier. | ||||
| Navy | Second Class Boy | Aboard, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | Peck served as second class boy on board Varuna during an attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862. | |||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company H, 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Newport Barracks, North Carolina | By long and persistent resistance and burning the bridges, kept a superior force of the enemy at bay and covered the retreat of the garrison. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company F, 13th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Paines Crossroads, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board the flagship USS Hartford during successful actions against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | Colonel | 97th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina | Gallantly led the charge over a traverse and planted the colors of one of his regiments thereon, was severely wounded. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company C, 97th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Blakeley, Alabama | Among the first to enter the enemy's entrenchments, he received the surrender of a Confederate general officer and his headquarters flag. | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard off Cherbourg, France | Served as boatswain's mate on board USS Kearsarge when she destroyed the raider Alabama off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864. | |||||
| Army | Private | Battery A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery | Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi | – | With two comrades voluntarily took position on board the steamer Cheeseman, in charge of all the guns and ammunition of the battery, and remained in charge of the same, although the steamer became unmanageable and was exposed for some time to a heavy fire from the enemy. | |||
| Army | Private | Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Was one of a party that volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Aboard | On board USS Commodore Perry in the attack upon Franklin, Virginia, 3 October 1862. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company A, 136th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia | Took up the colors as they fell out of the hands of the wounded color bearer and carried them forward in the charge. | ||||
| Army | Colonel | 7th Maryland Infantry Regiment | Laurel Hill, Virginia | Rode to the head of the assaulting column, then much broken by severe losses and faltering under the close fire of artillery, placed himself conspicuously in front of the troops, and gallantly rallied and led them to within a few feet of the enemy's works, where he was severely wounded and captured. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company E, 148th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Battle of Sutherland's Station, Virginia | Capture of flag | ||||
| Navy | Boatswain's Mate | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | 18th U.S. Infantry Regiment | Battle of Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee | Voluntarily conveyed, under a heavy fire, information to the commander of a battalion of regular troops by which the battalion was saved from capture or annihilation. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company B, 1st Battalion Minnesota Infantry | Deep Bottom, Virginia | At the risk of his life, voluntarily went to the assistance of a wounded officer lying close to the enemy's lines and, under fire carried him to a place of safety. | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company A, 33rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Cotton Plant, Arkansas | While the troops were falling back before a superior force, this soldier, assisted by one companion, and while under severe fire at close range, saved a cannon from capture by the enemy. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company F, 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Lee's Mills, Virginia | Gallantly led his company across a wide, deep creek, drove the enemy from the rifle pits, which were within 2yd of the farther bank, and remained at the head of his men until a second time severely wounded. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant Major | 57th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia | Captured the flag of the 57th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.) and saved his own colors by tearing them from the staff while the enemy was in the camp. | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company I, 5th Regiment United States Colored Troops | Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia | Took command of his company after all the officers had been killed or wounded and gallantly led it in battle. | ||||
| Army | Captain | Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Second Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia | and | While a sergeant and retiring with his company before the rapid advance of the enemy at Gettysburg, he and a companion stopped and carried to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade; in this act both he and his companion were severely wounded. A year later, at Reams Station, Virginia, while commanding a skirmish line, voluntarily assisted in checking a flank movement of the enemy, and while so doing was severely wounded, suffering the loss of an arm. | |||
| Army | Sergeant | Company C, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Capture of flag of the Sumter Heavy Artillery (C.S.A.). | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company G, 2nd Ohio Infantry | Great Locomotive Chase, Georgia | Fifth person to receive Medal of Honor | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company F, 14th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina | Rushed into the midst of the enemy and rescued the colors, the color bearer having fallen mortally wounded. | ||||
| Army | Private | Troop H, 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Fairfield, Pennsylvania | Seized the regimental flag upon the death of the standard bearer in a hand-to-hand fight and prevented it from falling into the hands of the enemy. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company F, 120th New York Volunteer Infantry | Hatcher's Run, Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | 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. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant Major | 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment | Second Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Recaptured the colors of the 2d Pennsylvania Provisional Artillery. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company E, 21st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry | Fredericksburg, Virginia | Seized the colors of his regiment, the color bearer having been shot down, and bore them to the front where both his arms were carried off by a shell. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company C, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry | Drywood, Kansas | With two companions, attacked a greatly superior force of guerrillas, routed them, and rescued several prisoners. | ||||
| Army | First Lieutenant | Company C, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry | Battle of Baxter Springs, Kansas | While in command of two companies of Cavalry, was surprised and attacked by several times his own number of guerrillas, but gallantly rallied his men, and after a severe struggle drove the enemy outside the fortifications. 1st Lt. Pond then went outside the works and, alone and unaided, fired a howitzer three times, throwing the enemy into confusion and causing him to retire. | ||||
| Navy | Quartermaster | Aboard off Cherbourg, France | He was serving as a Quartermaster on the sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge when she sank the commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France. He was awarded his Medal of Honor for gallantry under fire exhibited while steering the ship. | |||||
| Army | Commissary Sergeant | Company D, 12th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry | Tallahatchie River, Mississippi | Was one of four volunteers who swam the river under a brisk fire of the enemy's sharpshooters and brought over a ferry boat by means of which the troops crossed and dislodged the enemy from a strong position. | ||||
| Army | Captain | US Army Ordnance Department | Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia | While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company G, 21st Ohio Infantry | Great Locomotive Chase, Georgia | One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of General Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Georgia, in an attempt to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company H, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry | Battle of Sayler's Creek, Virginia | Among the first to check the enemy's countercharge. | ||||
| Army | Colonel | 59th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Battle of Nashville, Tennessee | – | Led his brigade in an attack on a strong position under intense fire. Later a U.S. Representative for Illinois. | |||
| Army | Captain | Company A, 1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Voluntarily delivered an order in the face of heavy fire of the enemy. | ||||
| Army | Private | Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery | Third Battle of Petersburg, Virginia | Was one of a detachment of 20 picked artillerymen who voluntarily accompanied an infantry assaulting party, and who turned upon the enemy the guns captured in the assault. | ||||
| Army | First Sergeant | Company E, 149th New York Infantry | Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee | Capture of flag (Bragg's army). | ||||
| Army | Major | 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Sinking Creek Raid, Virginia (now West Virginia) | Distinguished services in raid, where with 20 men, he charged and captured the enemy's camp, 500 strong, without the loss of man or gun. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company A, 3rd Iowa Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas | Under a heavy fire and at great personal risk went to the aid of a dismounted comrade who was surrounded by the enemy, took him up on his own horse, and carried him to a place of safety. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company F, 147th Illinois Infantry Regiment | Oostanaula, Georgia | Voluntarily swam the river under heavy fire and secured a ferryboat, by means of which the command crossed. | ||||
| Navy | Captain of the Main Top | Aboard, First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher | – | On board USS Ticonderoga during attacks on Fort Fisher, 24 and 25 December 1864; and 13 to 15 January 1865. | ||||
| Army | Private | Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment | Battle of Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee | Voluntarily rescued the body of his commanding officer, who had fallen mortally wounded. He brought off the field his mortally wounded leader under direct and constant rifle fire. | ||||
| Navy | Landsman | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | Served on board USS Oneida in the engagement at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. | |||||
| Army | First Lieutenant and Commissary | 10th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Battle of Trevilian Station, Virginia | Voluntarily led a charge in which he was severely wounded. | ||||
| Navy | Coxswain | Aboard, Battle of Mobile Bay | On board USS Brooklyn during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay. | |||||
| Navy | Ordinary Seaman | Aboard, Second Battle of Fort Fisher | On board USS Santiago de Cuba during the assault on Fort Fisher. | |||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company G, 104th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia | While carrying the regimental colors on the retreat he returned to face the advancing enemy, flag in hand, and saved the other colors, which would otherwise have been captured. | ||||
| Army | Second Lieutenant | Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry | Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Voluntarily assisted a wounded comrade to a place of apparent safety while the enemy were in close proximity; he received the fire of the enemy and a wound which resulted in the amputation of his left leg. | ||||
| Army | Sergeant | Company D, 9th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment | Crumps Creek, Virginia | With a small force on a reconnaissance drove off a strong body of the enemy, charged into another force of the enemy's cavalry and stampeded them, taking 27 prisoners. | ||||
| Army | Corporal | Company A, 77th Illinois Infantry | Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi | Carried, with others, by hand, a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works. | ||||
| Navy | Seaman | Landing Party, Battle of Natural Bridge | – | Served as a seaman on board USS Magnolia, St. Marks, Florida, 5 and 6 March 1865. |