Medal of Honor
April 22, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Major
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- 3d Marines
- Presentation date
- December 4, 1915
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Albertus Wright Catlin — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002248
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 177
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Accredited to
- Minnesota
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 7cf5e645cab88deae338ba3942e044e058ee3955f8f1084bcd38836601dfa2bd
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited rank-1 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The action rank Major remains distinct from the later or highest rank Brigadier General. The controlled canonical unit or command is 3d Marines; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1914-04-22 and classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico remains preserved in the audit evidence. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.