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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Harvey Bennett

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002188Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

May 11, 1898

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Rank at action
Chief Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
USS Marblehead

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Marblehead during the cutting of the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Bennett set an example of extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout this action.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Harvey Bennett — 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-002198
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
521
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
960dfd48915b3657c0f9b15b49c353f80154d3614139f429f872fceb3b245197

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 authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from James H. Bennett to James Harvey Bennett; both forms remain preserved. The current source documents the following alias or alternate identity form on the same controlled identity: Quirk, John B.. The current profile records USS Marblehead; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1898-05-11 from the current authoritative profile. The current source confirms the inherited historical action place Cienfuegos, Cuba. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Spanish-American 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.

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