Medal of Honor
July 26, 1876
Navy Yard, New York, USA
- Rank at action
- Seaman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1871 - 1899
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Plymouth
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Charles Giddings — 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-002360
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 215
- Accredited to
- Maine
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 9d8c113f4f00461048ee03eb64d48a3f92e2ebaf4e864612d6fae94ba97356d4
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The canonical reference profile was recovered through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set and then confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Charles Gidding to Charles Giddings; both renderings remain preserved. Documented aliases remain attached to this stable recipient identity: Gidding, Charles. No identity merge or split was performed. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Plymouth; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Plymouth, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1876-07-26 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 Navy Yard, New York, USA; the current structured place Navy Yard, New York and the complete inherited geocoder value Brooklyn Navy Yard, 63 Flushing Avenue #300, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA 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.