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Medal of Honor Recipient

Allen Buchanan

U.S. Navy · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002220Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1915

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Medal of Honor

April 21, 1914–April 22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Lieutenant Commander
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
1st Seaman Regiment
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. In command of the 1st Seaman Regiment, Lt. Cmdr. Buchanan was in both days' fighting and almost continually under fire from soon after landing, about noon of the 21st, until we were in possession of the city, about noon of the 22d. His duties required him to be at points of great danger in directing his officers and men, and he exhibited conspicuous courage, coolness, and skill in his conduct of the fighting. Upon his courage and skill depended, in great measure, success or Failure. His responsibilities were great, and he met them in a manner worthy of commendation.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Allen Buchanan — 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-002230
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Other source unit wording
Not documented
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Accredited to
Indiana
Archive transcription SHA-256
fb0a40d88b4f44af1fdd51aa72030510133265b8b48e3dfed2fb6e212396cc6a

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 Lieutenant Commander remains distinct from the later or highest rank Captain. The controlled canonical unit or command is 1st Seaman Regiment; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1914-04-21 through 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 Society structured action date is 1914-04-21; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation and supplemental official evidence is preserved separately. 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.

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