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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Russell

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002640Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1880

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Medal of Honor

September 21, 1880

Genoa, Italy

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Trenton

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Trenton, at Genoa, Italy, 21 September 1880, and rescuing from drowning Hans Paulsen, ordinary seaman.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Russell — 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-002652
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
672823cd4b1be7ee841f0a9fde26206bc320b773f8e745d45212af6a49da76c2

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, U.S.S. Trenton, and the September 21, 1880 Genoa lifesaving 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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