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Medal of Honor Recipient

Aaron Sanderson

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002644Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

March 17–18, 1865

Mattox Creek, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Wyandank

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Wyandank during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865. Participating with a boat crew in the clearing of Mattox Creek, L/man Anderson carried out his duties courageously in the face of a devastating fire which cut away half the oars, pierced the launch in many places and cut the barrel off a musket being fired at the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Aaron Sanderson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002656
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Entered service at
Philadelphia, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
461f36a0f1b7070e7d7f1d06d46c41bc8fb577b02eda6aa80aab0039488b25c4

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, U.S.S. Wyandank, and the March 17–18, 1865 Mattox Creek action range. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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