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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Henry Wanton

U.S. Army · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-000546Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

June 30, 1898

Tayabacoa, Cuba

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
Troop M, 10th U.S. Cavalry

The Citation

Sources ↓
Voluntarily went ashore in the face of the enemy and aided in the rescue of his wounded comrades; this after several previous attempts at rescue had been frustrated.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Henry Wanton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000552
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Master Sergeant
Entered service at
Paterson, N.J.
Archive transcription SHA-256
6c38a32f9005245d0147bca249c0ca7f2c49444e5c5bcbc406421f5dd2bd5b51

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

The current official profile expands the middle name and preserves Private as the action rank and Master Sergeant as the later rank.