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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Meredith

U.S. Marine Corps · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002525Source-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
Private
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Marblehead

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Marblehead during the operation of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Meredith displayed 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 Meredith — 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-002536
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
521
Later or highest recorded rank
Sergeant
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
4e9ddb9a997bd0e19c92bb7e6aec96c58ef0bdfdfee54d51247574803328444f

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

Current reference profile confirms Private as the action rank, Sergeant as the later or highest rank, alias Ford Jr., Patrick F., USS Marblehead, and the May 11, 1898 Cienfuegos action. 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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