Medal of Honor
June 9, 1871
Korean Forts, Korea
- Rank at action
- Ordinary Seaman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Korean Campaign 1871
- Unit or command
- USS Benicia
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 Andrews — 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-002175
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 176
- Accredited to
- Maryland
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c9ddaa7c697e429880cee49d5bb72a8f36868c3221e91f9e8ec69b28e31f2856
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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current source documents the following alias or alternate identity form on the same controlled identity: James Andrews. The current profile records USS Benicia; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1871-06-09 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Korean Forts, Korea; the complete inherited geocoder value South Korea remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Korean Campaign 1871; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.