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Medal of Honor Recipient

John P. Erickson

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002311Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

December 24, 1864–February 22, 1865

Forts Fisher & Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Pontoosuc during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864, to 22 February 1865. Carrying out his duties faithfully throughout this period, Erickson was so severely wounded in the assault upon Fort Fisher that he was sent to the hospital at Portsmouth, Va. Erickson was recommended for his gallantry, skill, and coolness in action while under the fire of the enemy.
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Served on board the U.S.S. Pontoosuc during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864 to 22 February 1865. Carrying out his duties faithfully throughout this period, Erickson was so severely wounded in the assault upon Fort Fisher that he was sent to the hospital at Portsmouth, Va. Erickson was recommended for his gallantry, skill, and coolness in action while under the fire of the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John P. Erickson — 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-002322
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Other source date wording
1865-02-22
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
c2bf2ee51a143fe9d74295f3636d72dec0fa4593a9050f7f08df86ea752c761c

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 exact current profile heading is John P Erickson; the controlled display name is John P. Erickson, and both forms remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Pontoosuc; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Pontoosuc, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-12-24 through 1865-02-22 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 Fisher & Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place Forts Fisher & Wilmington, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Fisher Historic Museum, 1610 South Fort Fisher Boulevard, Kure Beach, NC 28449, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1865-02-22; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. The Society structured field records the February 22, 1865 endpoint, while the rendered citation describes service from December 24, 1864 through February 22, 1865; the full action period is controlled without discarding the structured endpoint. 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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