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Medal of Honor Recipient

Austin Denham

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002285Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1872

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Medal of Honor

April 12, 1872

near Greytown, Nicaragua

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Kansas

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Kansas near Greytown, Nicaragua, 12 April 1872. Displaying great coolness and self-possession at the time Comdr. A. F. Crosman and others were drowned, Denham, by heroism and personal exertion, prevented greater loss of life.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Austin Denham — 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-002296
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
176
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
5a403df5b51780c3c0ef9ee7f52910fd2834a501d6845e984509d1a0f1c8606a

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 controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Kansas; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Kansas, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1872-04-12 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is near Greytown, Nicaragua; the current structured place near Greytown, Nicaragua and the complete inherited geocoder value Greytown, Nicaragua remain 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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