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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Mills

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002533Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Minnesota

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Minnesota, in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865. Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, Mills charged up to the palisades and, when more than two_thirds of the men became seized with panic and retreated on the run, risked his life to remain with a wounded officer. With the enemy concentrating his fire on the group, he waited until after dark before assisting the wounded man from the field.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles Mills — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002544
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
6b01e6a8ccea0763293256e845d3f1ae702c5e34fc4e2eec5b40821536bdac8c

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Minnesota, and the January 15, 1865 Fort Fisher action. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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