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Medal of Honor Recipient

John S. Lann

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002470Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

March 5, 1865–March 6, 1865

St. Marks, Florida, USA

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Magnolia

The Citation

Sources ↓
As landsman on board the U.S.S. Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5 and 6 March, Lann served with the Army in charge of Navy howitzers during the attack on St. Marks and throughout this fierce engagement made remarkable efforts in ass1sting transport of the gun. His coolness and determination in standing by his gun while under the fire of the enemy were a credit to the service to which he belonged.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John S. Lann — 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-002481
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
2745151fca7259817ec042e318a93efdc022416a34412bf7ed3982e3289d935f

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 S Lann; the controlled display name is John S. Lann, and both forms remain preserved. Documented aliases or alternate identity forms remain attached to the controlled identity: Lanning, John S.. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Magnolia; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Magnolia, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1865-03-05 through 1865-03-06 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The Society structured action-date field is retained separately as 1865-03-05. The controlled historical action place is St. Marks, Florida, USA; the current structured place St. Marks, Florida, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value St. Marks, FL, USA remain preserved. 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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