Medal of Honor
May 11, 1898
Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Coxswain
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- USS Nashville
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Benjamin F. Baker — 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-002182
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 521
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Chief Master-at-Arms
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 3d0c2fa0e93a16088bc7445a04d599699437402a9ba18c1017284141d73e0a5a
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 exact rendered source heading “Benjamin F Baker” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “Benjamin F. Baker”. The controlled action rank is Coxswain; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Chief Master-at-Arms. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records USS Nashville; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1898-05-11 from the current authoritative profile. The current source confirms the inherited historical action place Cienfuegos, Cuba. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Spanish-American 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.