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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Baker

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002173Source-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 HonorRecorded presentation: 1866

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Medal of Honor

August 5, 1864

Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Quarter Gunner
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Metacomet
Presentation date
January 15, 1866

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Metacomet. As a member of the boat's crew which went to the rescue of the U.S. monitor Tecumseh when that vessel was struck by a torpedo in passing the enemy forts in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864, Q.G. Baker braved the enemy fire which was said by the admiral to be "one of the most galling" he had ever seen, and aided in rescuing from death 10 of the crew of the Tecumseh, eliciting the admiration of both friend and foe.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles 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-002183
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
71
Entered service at
New York, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
c850cd7293bddd3e8217eafd5cb20d05f49281183e1e86c7cc4defa203de3b59

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 Metacomet; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1864-08-05 from the current authoritative profile. The current source confirms the inherited historical action place Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA. 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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