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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edward R. Bowman

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002203Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 13, 1865–January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Ticonderoga

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Ticonderoga during attacks on Fort Fisher 13 to 15 January 1865. Despite severe wounds sustained during the action Bowman displayed outstanding courage in the performance of duty as his ship maintained its well-placed fire upon the batteries on shore, and thereafter, as she materially lessened the power of guns on the mound which had been turned upon our assaulting columns. During this battle the flag was planted on one of the strongest fortifications possessed by the rebels.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Edward R. Bowman — 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-002213
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
Maine
Archive transcription SHA-256
b94ac4dafa2eefeb4bc95f23fabb3ac338d5926e7319730c3a2ba244b020851a

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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The exact rendered source heading “Edward R Bowman” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “Edward R. Bowman”. The current profile records USS Ticonderoga; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The current profile records an action period from 1865-01-13 through 1865-01-15; the complete range is retained rather than reduced to one date. The controlled historical action place is Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Fisher Historic Museum, 1610 South Fort Fisher Boulevard, Kure Beach, NC 28449, USA remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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