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Medal of Honor Recipient

Asa Betham

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002190Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

December 24, 1864–January 22, 1865

Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Coxswain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Pontoosuc

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Pontoosuc during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864, to 22 January 1865. Carrying out his duties faithfully during this period, Betham was recommended for gallantry and skill and for his cool courage while under the fire of the enemy throughout these various actions.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Asa Betham — 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-002200
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
cc3881a83817cb32430350e99e9111c350b7ba13a6eed536bae56591695de2ee

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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current profile records USS Pontoosuc; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The current profile records an action period from 1864-12-24 through 1865-01-22; the complete range is retained rather than reduced to one date. The controlled historical action place is Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Fisher Historic Museum, 1610 South Fort Fisher Boulevard, Kure Beach, NC 28449, USA remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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