Medal of Honor
July 16, 1876
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Rank at action
- Ordinary Seaman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1871 - 1899
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Hartford
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 Costello — 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-002275
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 214
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c8552a4b4c926b010bde90a6e7f3b9d425f0a9e0aa8b2fc247e0c35113fadef5
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. Hartford; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Hartford, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1876-07-16 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; the current structured place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Philadelphia, PA, 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.