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Medal of Honor Recipient

Martin Howard

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002412Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

October 31, 1864

Plymouth, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Tacony

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Tacony during the taking of Plymouth, N.C., 31 October 1864. Carrying out his duties faithfully during the capture of Plymouth, Howard distinguished himself by a display of coolness when he participated in landing and spiking a 9-inch gun while under a devastating fire from enemy musketry.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Martin Howard — 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-002423
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
e6ec37f286828cb8e59eccdbea2574ac2ae91f0d204b0734ff39cc79d369b6c2

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 controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Tacony; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Tacony, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-10-31 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 Plymouth, North Carolina, USA; the current structured place Plymouth, North Carolina, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Plymouth, NC, 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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