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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Greene

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002362Source-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, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Captain of the Forecastle
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Varuna

The Citation

Sources ↓
Captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. Varuna during the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and while under fire and ramming by the rebel ship Morgan, 24 April 1862. During this action at extremely close range while his ship was under furious fire and twice rammed by the rebel ship Morgan, Greene remained steadfast at his gun throughout the thickest of the fight and was instrumental in inflicting damage on the enemy until the Varuna, badly damaged and forced to beach, was finally sunk.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Greene — 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-002373
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Entered service at
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
4050a4052cdb755185f73f6798c5f75039c0f414743318c92793fb0a0c07c485

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. Varuna; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Varuna, 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, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place Forts Jackson & St. Philip, 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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