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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles H. Foy

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002331Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 13, 1865–January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher and the Federal Point batteries, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Signal Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Rhode Island

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island during the action with Fort Fisher and the Federal Point batteries, 13 to 15 January 1865. Carrying out his duties courageously during the battle, Foy continued to be outstanding by his good conduct and faithful services throughout this engagement which resulted in a heavy casualty list when an attempt was made to storm Fort Fisher.
Separately preserved current-source wording

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Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island during the actions with Fort Fisher and the Federal Point batteries, 13 to 15 January 1865. Carrying out his duties courageously during the battle, Foy continued to be outstanding by his good conduct and faithful services throughout the engagement, which resulted in a heavy casualty list when an attempt was made to storm Fort Fisher.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles H. Foy — 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-002342
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New Hampshire
Archive transcription SHA-256
f57ea3a9174531f44cb449477a2d7798363692e79f7af2c3361a58807a18a7d1

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 exact current profile heading is Charles H Foy; the controlled display name is Charles H. Foy, and both forms remain preserved. The current authoritative service branch is U.S. Navy; the inherited service rendering U.S. Army remains preserved as a separately attributed variant or correction. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Rhode Island; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Rhode Island, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1865-01-13 through 1865-01-15 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Fort Fisher and the Federal Point batteries, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place Fort Fisher and the Federal Point batteries, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Fisher Historic Museum, 1610 South Fort Fisher Boulevard, Kure Beach, NC 28449, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1865-01-13; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. The inherited record classified Foy under the U.S. Army, while the current reference profile and the inherited citation identify naval service aboard U.S.S. Rhode Island; the U.S. Navy is controlled canonically and the inherited Army rendering remains preserved as a source conflict. 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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