Medal of Honor
May 11, 1898
Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Nashville
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Joseph John Franklin — 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-002345
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 521
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Marine Gunner
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 0b2e753dead8dea92850f41ab55373ee92c15d5436180a31b2561e803c216bd1
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 action rank Private remains distinct from the later or highest rank Marine Gunner. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Nashville; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Nashville, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1898-05-11 and classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Cienfuegos, Cuba; the current structured place Cienfuegos, Cuba and the complete inherited geocoder value Cienfuegos, Cuba remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.