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Medal of Honor Recipient

James K. L. Duncan

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002301Source-based record

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

March 2, 1864

near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Fort Hindman

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Fort Hindman during the engagement near Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864. Following a shellburst at one of the guns which started a fire at the cartridge tie, Duncan immediately seized the burning cartridge, took it from the gun and threw it overboard, despite the immediate danger to himself. Carrying out his duties through the entire engagement, Duncan served courageously during this action in which the Fort Hindman was raked severely with shot and shell from the enemy guns.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James K. L. Duncan — 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-002312
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
32
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
a927aed252ab9f800f5394bad167f1c40aaf4ae580a7a35e566cccab1ca64479

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The inherited rank-3 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; the higher candidate rank was not treated as verification by itself, and every inherited candidate remains preserved. The exact current profile heading is James K. l Duncan; the controlled display name is James K. L. Duncan, and both forms remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Fort Hindman; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Fort Hindman, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-03-02 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 near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Harrisonburg, LA, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The current profile heading contains a lower-case initial typographical variant; the inherited capitalized initial remains the controlled display form, and the source heading is preserved exactly. 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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