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Medal of Honor Recipient

Frederick W Fout

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000750Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

September 15, 1862

near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Second Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
15th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

The Citation

Sources ↓
Voluntarily gathered the men of the battery together, remanned the guns, which had been ordered abandoned by an officer, opened fire, and kept up the same on the enemy until after the surrender.

Sources & record notes

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  1. Frederick W Fout — 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-000756
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
Indianapolis, Ind.
Archive transcription SHA-256
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Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current official Society evidence confirms the identity and core action record; historical action wording replaces inherited geocoder text while all inherited values and the complete legacy citation remain preserved.