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Medal of Honor Recipient

Fred Jurgen Schnepel

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

MOH-RC-002652Source-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: 1914

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Medal of Honor

April 21–22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
U.S.S. Florida
Presentation date
June 15, 1914

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Florida, Schnepel showed extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the seizure of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 21 and 22 April 1914.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Fred Jurgen Schnepel — 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-002664
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
101
Later or highest recorded rank
Chief Quartermaster
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
8c7bbf3b73178ea1fb9e12fafb9a55e4a4ad3c8b8e190ed898761069286cb2bf

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

The structured profile gives April 21, 1914 while the rendered citation covers April 21–22. The complete two-day chronology is controlled while the structured start remains separately attributed; Ordinary Seaman and later Chief Quartermaster remain distinct. 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.