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Medal of Honor Recipient

Bartlett Laffey

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002467Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

March 5, 1864

off Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
Off Yazoo City, Miss., 5 March 1864, embarking from the Marmora with a 12-pound howitzer mounted on a field carriage, Laffey landed with the gun and crew in the midst of heated battle and, bravely standing by his gun despite enemy rifle fire which cut the gun carriage and rammer, contributed to the turning back of the enemy during the fierce engagement.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Bartlett Laffey — 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-002478
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
32
Later or highest recorded rank
Acting Master's Mate
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
5faf8b4c8af8827577fb42234ac3ec173281246169cd0fba60ed70f0af49b252

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 Seaman remains distinct from the later or highest rank Acting Master's Mate. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Marmora; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Marmora, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-03-05 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is off Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA; the current structured place off Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Yazoo City, MS 39194, USA remain preserved. 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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