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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Lucy

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002487Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1876

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Medal of Honor

July 9, 1876

Castle Garden, New York City, New York, USA

Rank at action
Second Class Boy
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S. Training Ship Minnesota

The Citation

Sources ↓
Displayed heroic conduct while serving on board the U.S. Training Ship Minnesota on the occasion of the burning of Castle Garden at New York, 9 July 1876.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Lucy — 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-002498
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
fea238749a5ae1dbbc2ca72b9cf759103286596fe8b4340a11bc7d62121e0240

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. Training Ship Minnesota; the current structured profile renders U.S. Training Ship Minnesota, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1876-07-09 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is Castle Garden, New York City, New York, USA; the current structured place Castle Garden, New York City, New York, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Castle Clinton National Monument, Battery Park - Liberty Island, New York, NY 10004, USA remain preserved. 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.