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Medal of Honor Recipient

Daniel Griffin George

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002347Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

October 27, 1864

Plymouth, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S. Picket Boat No. 1

The Citation

Sources ↓
George served on board U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, in action 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram, Albemarle, which had resisted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her. The picket boat, equipped with a spar torpedo, succeeded in passing the enemy pickets within 20 yards without being discovered and then made for the Albemarle under a full head of steam. Immediately taken under fire by the ram, the small boat plunged on, jumped the log boom which encircled the target and exploded its torpedo under the port bow of the ram. The picket boat was destroyed by enemy fire and almost the entire crew taken prisoner or lost.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Daniel Griffin George — 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-002358
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New Hampshire
Archive transcription SHA-256
8380dc0ea0d0caaf7345d4780d47fd6e2b03077ffcadadbc60b0df68448f0257

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Daniel G. George to Daniel Griffin George; both renderings remain preserved. Documented aliases remain attached to this stable recipient identity: Smith, William, William Smith. No identity merge or split was performed. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S. Picket Boat No. 1; the current structured profile renders U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-10-27 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 Plymouth, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place Plymouth, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value United States 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.

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