Medal of Honor
May 11, 1898
Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Apprentice First Class
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Marblehead
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Leonard B. Chadwick — 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-002250
- 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
- Gunner's Mate Third Class
- Accredited to
- Delaware
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 66617c8ef866b37161c8c3674d2607816e37e4176890add1dc69cf59c74f5e25
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The canonical current reference profile was resolved through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set after the inherited candidate slugs did not provide the verified profile. Every inherited candidate and failed URL remains preserved; candidate rank and HTTP behavior were not treated as verification. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Leonard Chadwick to Leonard B. Chadwick; both renderings remain preserved. The action rank Apprentice First Class remains distinct from the later or highest rank Gunner's Mate Third Class. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Marblehead; 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 complete inherited geocoder value Cienfuegos, Cuba remains 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.