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Medal of Honor Recipient

James McLeod

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002519Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 24–25, 1862

Forts Jackson & St. Philip and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
Captain of foretop, and a volunteer from the Colorado, McLeod served on board the U.S.S. Pensacola during the attack upon Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the taking of New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. Acting as gun captain of the rifled howitzer aft which was much exposed, he served this piece with great ability and activity, although no officer superintended it.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James McLeod — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002530
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Accredited to
Maine
Archive transcription SHA-256
10a24c95f948f2198424613798bf7a4a6f15f5b9d1d1642dbd7e52fef3274309

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Pensacola, and the April 24–25, 1862 action range at Forts Jackson and St. Philip and New Orleans. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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