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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Miller

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002529Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

December 25, 1863

off Legareville, Stono River, John's Island, South Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as quartermaster on board the U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, during an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Acting courageously under the fierce hostile fire, Miller behaved gallantly throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's withdrawal and abandonment of its arms.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Miller — 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-002540
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
32
Later or highest recorded rank
Acting Master's Mate
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
e7a6f62f7976f083468b3b985ef4ead4d36eadabe05cdc71c2e512ccd6c8cbb1

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

Current reference profile confirms Quartermaster as the action rank, Acting Master's Mate as the later or highest rank, the U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead, and the December 25, 1863 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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