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Medal of Honor Recipient

Louis Richards

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002623Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 24–25, 1862

Forts Jackson & St. Philip and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Pensacola

The Citation

Sources ↓
Richards served as quartermaster on board the U.S.S. Pensacola in the attack upon Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and at the taking of New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. Through all the din and roar of battle, he steered the ship through the narrow opening of the barricade, and his attention to orders contributed to the successful passage of the ship without once fouling the shore or the obstacles of the barricade.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Louis Richards — 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-002635
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Later or highest recorded rank
Acting Master's Mate
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
3d113ec2d96a001f4a6e6473e64301d56082604656c135832ce004a265b11a79

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

Current reference profile confirms Quartermaster as the action rank, Acting Master's Mate as the later or highest rank, USS Pensacola, and the April 24–25, 1862 action range. 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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