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Medal of Honor Recipient

Lewis Augustine Horton

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002409Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

December 30, 1862

off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Rhode Island

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island, which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor, 30 December 1862. Participating in the hazardous task of rescuing the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Horton, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island and spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Lewis Augustine Horton — 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-002420
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
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
aadff1144527ba8aa0528ee32fcc352272812e78ffdf3a5721060717502080d0

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Lewis A. Horton to Lewis Augustine Horton; both renderings remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Rhode Island; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Rhode Island, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1862-12-30 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA 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.

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