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Medal of Honor Recipient

Richard J Curran

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000691Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

September 17, 1862

Antietam, Maryland, USA

Rank at action
Assistant Surgeon
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
33d New York Infantry

The Citation

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Voluntarily exposed himself to great danger by going to the fighting line there succoring the wounded and helpless and conducting them to the field hospital.
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Voluntarily exposed himself to great danger by going to the fighting line, there succoring the wounded and helpless, and conducting them to the field hospital.

Sources & record notes

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  1. Richard J Curran — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27

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  2. Richard J Curran — United States Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗United States Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-27

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000697
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-27
Later or highest recorded rank
Surgeon
Entered service at
Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
f76c6763cb36161a1e760481ee7aef1fe20cd786a405675eb0198e5f3ab595e4

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

Official Society search resolved the current Richard J Curran profile outside the inherited candidate set. The Army/inherited shorter Richard Curran form and punctuation variants remain preserved.