Medal of Honor
August 5, 1864
Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA
- Rank at action
- Seaman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- USS Metacomet
- Presentation date
- January 15, 1866
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James Avery — 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-002180
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 71
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 84f7a456338529068c965de61fa2baa754dbcfcaa4c25a6037c0309eb3158cf4
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 profile records USS Metacomet; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1864-08-05 from the current authoritative profile. The current source confirms the inherited historical action place Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; 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.