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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Coleman

U.S. Marine Corps · Korean Campaign 1871

MOH-RC-002252Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1871

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Medal of Honor

June 11, 1871

Korean Forts, Korea

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
Korean Campaign 1871
Unit or command
U.S.S. Colorado

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Colorado in action at Korea on 11 June 1871. Fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy, Coleman succeeded in saving the life of Alexander McKenzie.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Coleman — 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-002262
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
169
Accredited to
California
Archive transcription SHA-256
d5730ac425843074adc481268952683dd9e62b9e5cf7fb57adcf795368f4de27

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 controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Colorado; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1871-06-11 and classifies the action under Korean Campaign 1871; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Korean Forts, Korea; the complete inherited geocoder value South Korea remains 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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