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Medal of Honor Recipient

Oscar E Peck

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002596Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 24, 1862

Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Second Class Boy
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Varuna

The Citation

Sources ↓
Peck served as second_class boy on board the Varuna during an attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862. Acting as powder boy of the after rifle, Peck served gallantly while the Varuna was repeatedly attacked and rammed and finally sunk. This was an extremely close_range action and, although badly damaged, the Varuna delivered shells abaft the Morgan's armor.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Oscar E Peck — 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-002608
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Accredited to
Connecticut
Archive transcription SHA-256
eb34caa3aa0eb068cbabc4cbf91b7613ddf3670759c9dbcfe10ee08ba4063f4d

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, Second Class Boy rank, USS Varuna, and the April 24, 1862 Forts Jackson and St. Philip action. 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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