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Medal of Honor Recipient

John H Nibbe

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002565Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

April 22, 1864

Yazoo River, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Petrel

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as quartermaster on board the U.S.S. Peterel during its capture in Yazoo River, 22 April 1864. Standing his ground when a shot came through the stern, raking the gundeck and entering and exploding the boilers, when all the others had deserted the flag, Nibbe assisted in getting the wounded off the guard and proceeded to get ready to fire the ship despite the escaping steam from the boilers at which time he was surrounded on all sides by the rebels and forced to surrender.

Sources & record notes

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

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

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002577
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
f3fd4a11f67ae4c8800f34279e2dfe97df2ff4dcf765f73abac43e40a864efa0

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

The structured Society field identifies USS Petrel while the rendered citation uses USS Peterel. Both official spellings are retained as separately attributed variants; USS Petrel is the controlled ship name. 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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