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Medal of Honor Recipient

Alexander Robinson

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002630Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

November 9, 1864

Brazos Santiago, Texas, USA

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Howquah

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Howquah on the occasion of the destruction of the blockade runner, Lynx, off Wilmington, 25 September 1864. Performing his duty faithfully under the most trying circumstances, Robinson stood firmly at his post in the midst of a crossfire from the rebel shore batteries and our own vessels.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Alexander Robinson — 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-002642
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
8fd68fdcc80edc8ae4073d0db3d0a851cb8447a64032e1cfb7af5b4ad5a7fec8

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, Boatswain's Mate rank, U.S.S. Howquah, and the November 9, 1864 Brazos Santiago action. 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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