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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Read

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002616Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

March 5–6, 1865

St. Marks, Florida, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
As seaman on board the U.S.S. Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5 and 6 March 1865. Serving with the Army in charge of Navy howitzers during the attack on St. Marks and throughout this fierce engagement, Read made remarkable efforts in assisting transport of the gun, and his coolness and determination in courageously standing by his gun while under the fire of the enemy were a credit to the service to which he belonged.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles Read — 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-002628
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Other source date wording
1865-03-06
Later or highest recorded rank
Ship's Cook
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
9598f1ba5b02001779e778bdd6f2fe21db3eeedd6a00fb58d9a741439e015572

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

The structured field gives March 6, 1865, while the citation describes March 5 and 6. The complete two-day chronology is controlled while the structured endpoint remains separately attributed; Ordinary Seaman and later Ship's Cook ranks remain distinct. 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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