Medal of Honor
April 21–22, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- Not documented
- Presentation date
- December 4, 1915
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Arthur Hughes — 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-002426
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 177
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 8aaa8e4f19c50d2de8fef055e9124efd27f3665997d92c67bf7d60525d74c2db
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. The current profile also supplies the separately retained rank rendering Captain (Highest Rank: Colonel); action and later or highest ranks remain separately attributed. The controlled canonical unit or command is Not documented; the current structured profile renders Not documented, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The controlled action-date display is April 21–22, 1914; the current structured source value and any fuller citation chronology remain separately attributed. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the current structured place Vera Cruz, Mexico and the complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico remain preserved in the audit evidence. The current structured action-date field gives April 21, 1914, while the rendered citation describes the Vera Cruz engagements of April 21–22. The controlled range records both days and preserves the structured single-date value separately. 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.