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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Haley

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002366Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

June 19, 1864

off Cherbourg, France

Rank at action
Captain of the Forecastle
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Kearsarge

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as captain of the forecastle on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge when she destroyed the Alabama off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864. Acting as captain of a gun during the bitter engagement, Haley exhibited marked coolness and good conduct and was highly commended by his division officer for his gallantry and meritorious achievement under enemy fire.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Haley — 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-002377
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
Ohio
Archive transcription SHA-256
c465412b18fcfe85a9e7db80d859dee72ffa0a02e2c250dab68f61bc57b0445d

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. Documented aliases remain attached to this stable recipient identity: Healey, James. No identity merge or split was performed. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Kearsarge; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Kearsarge, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-06-19 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is off Cherbourg, France; the current structured place off Cherbourg, France and the complete inherited geocoder value Cherbourg, France 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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