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Medal of Honor Recipient

Lauritz Nelson

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002561Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

May 11, 1898

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Rank at action
Sailmaker's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Nashville

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Nashville during the operation of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Nelson displayed extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout this action.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Lauritz Nelson — 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-002573
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
521
Later or highest recorded rank
Chief Boatswain's Mate
Archive transcription SHA-256
f7785978b9c5c84fa3d5719c854607a4c37c999af9e13d30758b92719c7dfe80

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

Current reference profile confirms the action rank, later or highest rank, USS Nashville, and the May 11, 1898 Cienfuegos 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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