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Medal of Honor Recipient

David Sprowle

U.S. Marine Corps · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002675Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 5, 1864

Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Orderly Sergeant
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Richmond

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats, and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Orderly Sgt. Sprowle inspired the men of the marine guard and directed a division of great guns throughout the furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.

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  1. David Sprowle — 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-002687
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
bb48dfb4f4d99293ac7c2336f570b85ff5f846c5409d7a79bd1d664ac41dda38

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

Current reference profile was substantively compared against the inherited identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation. Candidate rank or successful page rendering alone was not treated as verification.

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