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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Phillip Rilley

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002624Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

May 11, 1898

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Nashville

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Nashville during the operation of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Rilley displayed extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout this action.

Sources & record notes

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

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

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002636
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
521
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
2863507433dbf6e7a4e29562e1f1c28a64fdfb2ec420c2bacd2842890f3b5798

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

Current reference profile expands the inherited name and confirms USS Nashville and the May 11, 1898 Cienfuegos cable-cutting action. 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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