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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Rannahan

U.S. Marine Corps · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002615Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Minnesota

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Minnesota in the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865. Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, Cpl. Rannahan advanced to the top of the sandhill and partly through the breach in the palisades despite enemy fire which killed or wounded many officers and men. When more than two_thirds of the men became seized with panic and retreated on the run, he remained with the party until dark when it came safely away, bringing its wounded, its arms and its colors.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Rannahan — 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-002627
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
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
2f2c6d11744df6156c87bb07904d45a6aef01430b2db2b65917c78b6596200f4

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

Current reference profile confirms John Rannahan, alias Ranahan, John, Marine Corps service aboard USS Minnesota, and the January 15, 1865 Fort Fisher 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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