The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Captain James Milton Pipes, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 2 July 1863, while serving with Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While a sergeant and retiring with his company before the rapid advance of the enemy, Captain Pipes and a companion stopped and carried to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade; in this act both he and his companion were severely wounded. A year later on 25 August 1864, at Reams Station, Virginia, while commanding a skirmish line, Captain Pipes voluntarily assisted in checking a flank movement of the enemy, and while so doing was severely wounded, suffering the loss of an arm.