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Medal of Honor Recipient

Andrew Brinn

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002213Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

March 14, 1863

Port Hudson, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Mississippi

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Mississippi during her abandonment and firing in the engagement at Port Hudson, 14 March 1863. Remaining under enemy fire for 21/2 hours, Brinn remained on board the grounded vessel until all the abandoning crew had landed. After asking to be assigned some duty, he was finally ordered to save himself and to leave the Mississippi which had been deliberately fired to prevent her falling into rebel hands.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Andrew Brinn — 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-002223
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Entered service at
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
8647fac4849d59f251e265709bcbaf08a7c4887ed7b3bfb0c937d702e170217e

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 current source documents the following alias or alternate identity form(s) on the same controlled identity: Andrew Brynn. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Mississippi; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1863-03-14 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Port Hudson, Louisiana, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Port Hudson, LA 70791, USA 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.

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