The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Peter McAdams, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 3 May 1863, while serving with Company A, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry, in action at Salem Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Corporal McAdams 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.