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Medal of Honor Recipient

Henry A. Eilers

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002308Source-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: 1892

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Medal of Honor

September 17, 1892

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Rank at action
Gunner's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Philadelphia

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Philadelphia during the sham attack on Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md., 17 September 1892. Displaying extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on this occasion, Eilers remained at his post in the magazine and stamped out the burning particles of a prematurely exploded cartridge which had blown down the chute.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Henry A. Eilers — 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-002319
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
404
Later or highest recorded rank
Gunner
Accredited to
New Jersey
Archive transcription SHA-256
04c472b7aa3fc64930d7d1e03666be75dddd6cbc5b00eb0aefc304fa72006031

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 exact current profile heading is Henry A Eilers; the controlled display name is Henry A. Eilers, and both forms remain preserved. The action rank Gunner's Mate remains distinct from the later or highest rank Gunner. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Philadelphia; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Philadelphia, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1892-09-17 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; the current structured place Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Fort McHenry, 2400 East Fort Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21230, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.

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