Medal of Honor
July 13, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- Not documented
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 Cooney — 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-002269
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Corporal
- Accredited to
- Massachusetts
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 4cc8bf3b36ff33e92893ca8f82cbf6778f338fa4f5f52cbd0641d1eb06257b8f
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 current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-07-13 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China remains 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.