Medal of Honor
January 4, 1882
off Coasters Harbor Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Rank at action
- Ship's Printer
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1871 - 1899
- Unit or command
- U.S. Training Ship New Hampshire
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 McCarton — 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-002518
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 326
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 81462c17d10b48ce00f584dab2de9884dbdebc823c19159feb7b7e7eb7af2c5b
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 New Hampshire; the current structured profile renders U.S. Training Ship New Hampshire, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1882-01-04 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is off Coasters Harbor Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; the current structured place off Coasters Harbor Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Newport, Newport, UK 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.