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Medal of Honor Recipient

Benjamin Lloyd

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002482Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

May 25, 1864

Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Coal Heaver
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Wyalusing

The Citation

Sources ↓
Serving on board the U.S.S. Wyalusing and participating in a plan to destroy the rebel ram Albemarle in Roanoke River, 25 May 1864. Volunteering for the hazardous mission, Lloyd participated in the transfer of two torpedoes across an island swamp. Serving as boatkeeper, he aided in rescuing others of the party who had been detected before the plan could be completed, but who escaped, leaving detection of the plan impossible. By his skill and courage, Lloyd succeeded in returning to the mother ship after spending 24 hours of discomfort in the rain and swamp.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Benjamin Lloyd — 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-002493
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Later or highest recorded rank
Fireman Second Class
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
3c637edded654abf8858f70fae80965e913f269d1bd8d1371f8747d6948154f9

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 Coal Heaver remains distinct from the later or highest rank Fireman Second Class. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Wyalusing; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Wyalusing, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-05-25 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Roanoke River, North Carolina, 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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