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Medal of Honor Recipient

John McGreath Farquhar

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000737Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

December 31, 1862

Stone River, Tennessee, USA

Rank at action
Sergeant Major
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
89th Illinois Infantry
Presentation date
August 6, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
When a break occurred on the extreme right wing of the Army of the Cumberland, this soldier rallied fugitives from other commands, and deployed his own regiment, thereby checking the Confederate advance until a new line was established.

Sources & record notes

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  1. John McGreath Farquhar — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000743
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Entered service at
Chicago, Ill.
Archive transcription SHA-256
2245c3a28ae55167511ff37b30ef24b3fc387fa502137f1cb55f12f0a726aa83

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

The Society heading renders the middle name as “Mcgreath.” Canonical display normalizes capitalization to McGreath while preserving the source-rendered heading and all inherited identity fields.