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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edward Ringold

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002625Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

October 22, 1862

Pocataligo, South Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Coxswain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Wabash

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Wabash in the engagement at Pocataligo, 22 October 1862. Soliciting permission to accompany the howitzer corps, and performing his duty with such gallantry and presence of mind as to attract the attention of all around him, Ringold, knowing there was a scarcity of ammunition, went through the whole line of fire with his shirt slung over his shoulder filled with fixed ammunition which he had brought from 2 miles to the rear of the lines.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Edward Ringold — 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-002637
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Accredited to
Maryland
Archive transcription SHA-256
a2da2f4dd879aca14c9a42eb6da1450918932c036c05aa4aa3e6943ddb900dfc

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

Current reference profile confirms Edward Ringold, alias Ringgold, Edward, USS Wabash, and the October 22, 1862 Pocataligo 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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