Medal of Honor
July 3, 1898
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Brooklyn
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Harry Lewis MacNeal — 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-002506
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 526
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Corporal
- Accredited to
- Pennsylvania
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 258d91dfd8c9c1c341d293f9c7d916be66980a9fdbfead89fbaaaa92f5d5ec09
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, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The action rank Private remains distinct from the later or highest rank Corporal. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Brooklyn; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Brooklyn, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1898-07-03 and classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; the current structured place Santiago de Cuba, Cuba and the complete inherited geocoder value Santiago de Cuba, Cuba remain preserved. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.