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Medal of Honor Recipient

John B. Frisbee

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002338Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 24, 1862

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

Rank at action
Gunner's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S. Steam Gunboat Pinola

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S. Steam Gunboat Pinola during action against Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and during the taking of New Orleans, 24 April 1862. While engaged in the bombardment of Fort St. Philip, Frisbee, acting courageously and without personal regard, closed the powder magazine which had been set afire by enemy shelling and shut off his avenue of escape, thereby setting a high example of bravery. He served courageously throughout these engagements which resulted in the taking of the Forts Jackson and St. Philip and in the surrender of New Orleans.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John B. Frisbee — 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-002349
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Accredited to
Maine
Archive transcription SHA-256
0c5e0020d7278443d593ac790795ba574fa1894e3f7e997e4ad64d338bf5303a

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 exact current profile heading is John B Frisbee; the controlled display name is John B. Frisbee, and both forms remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S. Steam Gunboat Pinola; the current structured profile renders U.S. Steam Gunboat Pinola, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1862-04-24 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Forts Jackson & St. Philip and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place Forts Jackson & St. Philip and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Jackson, NY 12965, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.

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