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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Rush

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002637Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

March 14, 1863

Port Hudson, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
First Class Fireman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Richmond

The Citation

Sources ↓
Serving on board the U.S.S. Richmond in the attack on Port Hudson, 14 March 1863. Damaged by a 6_inch solid rifle shot which shattered the starboard safety_valve chamber and also damaged the port safety valve, the fireroom of the Richmond immediately became filled with steam to place it in an extremely critical condition. Acting courageously in this crisis, Rush persisted in penetrating the steam_filled room in order to haul the hot fires of the furnaces, and continued this action until the gravity of the situation had been lessened.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Rush — 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-002649
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Accredited to
District of Columbia
Archive transcription SHA-256
13887ac4b5340960091db2b49c26557176d381e5d5b60ebfbf0ce0fb7535431f

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, First Class Fireman rank, U.S.S. Richmond, and the March 14, 1863 Port Hudson 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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