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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edwin Alexander Anderson

U.S. Navy · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002163Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1915

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Medal of Honor

April 22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
2d Regiment of Bluejackets
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism in battle, engagement of Vera Cruz, 22 April 1914, in command of the 2d Seaman Regiment. Marching his regiment across the open space in front of the Naval Academy and other buildings, Capt. Anderson unexpectedly met a heavy fire from riflemen, machineguns and l-pounders, which caused part of his command to break and fall back, many casualties occurring amongst them at the time. His indifference to the heavy fire, to which he himself was exposed at the head of his regiment, showed him to be fearless and courageous in battle.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Edwin Alexander Anderson — 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-002173
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Later or highest recorded rank
Admiral
Accredited to
North Carolina
Archive transcription SHA-256
65d54a9d57562ef614da29fe3cf934ec2ff0587404faf76a02364db587320c79

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Edwin A. Anderson to Edwin Alexander Anderson; both forms remain preserved. The controlled action rank is Captain; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Admiral. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records 2d Regiment of Bluejackets; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1914-04-22 from the current authoritative profile. The current structured unit “2d Regiment of Bluejackets” and the inherited citation wording “2d Seaman Regiment” remain separately preserved. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the complete inherited geocoder value Vera Cruz - SP, Brazil remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); 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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