Medal of Honor
May 11, 1898
Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Oiler
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Nashville
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Michael Gibbons — 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-002359
- 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
- Fireman First Class
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 58b83cfd033e50e7dc36e5d1723f29831fae8f15c862b3679abd55c6f5e05894
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 action rank Oiler remains distinct from the later or highest rank Fireman First Class. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Nashville; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Nashville, and 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 current structured place Cienfuegos, Cuba and the complete inherited geocoder value Cienfuegos, Cuba 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.