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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Taylor

U.S. Navy · Interim 1865 - 1870

MOH-RC-002705Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1865

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Medal of Honor

September 9, 1865

New York Navy Yard, New York, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1865 - 1870
Unit or command
Not documented in structured profile

The Citation

Sources ↓
Seaman in charge of the picket boat attached to the Navy Yard, New York, 9 September 1865. Acting with promptness, coolness and good judgment, Taylor rescued from drowning Commander S. D. Trenchard, of the U.S. Navy, who fell overboard in attempting to get on a ferryboat, which had collided with an English steamer, and needed immediate assistance.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Taylor — 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-002718
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
71
Archive transcription SHA-256
5710f9e38d2f1ba58e7e4aac274fcff876dfdafa097f47aeb6fb6ed1579d6b8e

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

Current reference profile was substantively compared against the inherited identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation. Candidate rank or successful page rendering alone was not treated as verification.

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