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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles H. Baldwin

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002175Source-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: 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
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Wyalusing
Presentation date
December 31, 1864

The Citation

Sources ↓
Serving on board the U.S.S. Wyalusing and participating in a plan to destroy the rebel ram Albermarle in Roanoke River, 25 May 1864. Volunteering for the hazardous mission, C.H. Baldwin participated in the transfer of 2 torpedoes across an island swamp. Weighted by a line which was used to transfer the torpedoes, he swam the river and, when challenged by a sentry, was forced to abandon the plan after erasing its detection and before it could be carried to completion. Escaping the fire of the muskets, C.H. Baldwin spent 2 days and nights of hazardous travel without food, and finally arrived, fatigued, at the mother ship.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles H. Baldwin — 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-002185
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
Acting Master's Mate
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
cd3c33367bfd23008f4109af159713588b669127034e0a5e3c2b4bfac5ecf21b

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The inherited candidate set did not contain the controlling current reference profile at https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/charles-h-baldwin. A controlled archival reference search recovered the profile; identity, service, rank, action context, and citation evidence match the inherited record, while every inherited candidate and stale URL remain preserved. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Charles Baldwin to Charles H. Baldwin; both forms remain preserved. The exact rendered source heading “Charles H Baldwin” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “Charles H. Baldwin”. The controlled action rank is Coal Heaver; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Acting Master's Mate. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records USS Wyalusing; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1864-05-25 from the current authoritative profile. The current source confirms the inherited historical action place Roanoke River, North Carolina, 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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