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Medal of Honor Recipient

Michael Connolly

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002255Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1876

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Medal of Honor

August 7, 1876

Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, Canada

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Plymouth

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, 7 August 1876. Acting gallantly, Connolly succeeding in rescuing a citizen from drowning on this date.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

On board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, 7 August 1876. Acting gallantly, Connolly succeeded in rescuing a citizen from drowning on this date.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Michael Connolly — 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-002265
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
218
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
bd95c8f7d4377773e357fdbb1b835e333ddebe8ab4533bbabce04e1d2b5c9dfd

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. Plymouth; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1876-08-07 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, Canada; the complete inherited geocoder value Harbour Drive, Dartmouth, NS B2Y, Canada remains preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured place repeats “Nova Scotia”; the exact source rendering is retained while the controlled canonical place is Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, Canada. 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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