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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Edward Murphy

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002557Source-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: 1898

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Medal of Honor

June 3, 1898

Santiago de Cuba harbor entrance, Cuba

Rank at action
Coxswain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Merrimac assigned to the U.S.S. Iowa

The Citation

Sources ↓
In connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. Merrimac at the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, 2 June 1898. Despite heavy fire from the Spanish shore batteries, Murphy displayed extraordinary heroism throughout this operation.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Edward Murphy — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002569
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
529
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
c2c3d494fdf9e4e95467328ea0bfe7f14b3941d1cd0927f24865345acbf8a0ec

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current reference profile expands the inherited name and confirms USS Merrimac assigned to USS Iowa and the June 3, 1898 Santiago harbor operation. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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