- Rank at action
- Boatswain's Mate
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Wyandank
First Award: Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Wyandank during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865. Rendering gallant assistance to his commanding officer, Mullen, lying on his back, loaded the howitzer and then fired so carefully as to kill and wound many rebels, causing their retreat.
Preserved earlier transcription
Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Wyandank during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865. Rendering gallant assistance to his commanding officer, Mullen, lying on his back, loaded the howitzer and then fired so carefully as to kill and wound many rebels, causing their retreat.
SECOND AWARD
G.O. No.: 62, 29 June 1865. Second award. Citation: Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Don, 1 May 1865. Engaged in picking up the crew of picket launch No. 6, which had swamped. Mullen, seeing an officer who was at that time no longer able to keep up and was below the surface of the water, jumped overboard and brought the officer to the boat, thereby rescuing him from drowning, which brave action entitled him to wear a bar on the medal he had already received at Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Patrick Mullen — current Society profile (First Medal of Honor) ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31
current identity, service, action metadata, award multiplicity, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002563
- Transcription status
- Current-profile multi-award transcription
- Last source check
- 2026-08-31
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 59
- Entered service at
- Baltimore, Md.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- f455f9e6191c7a2bc8861db1b5145542997d2d438a9b20f9f564cba2f87091bf
Legacy combined-row transcription preserved; separately documented current awards transcribed as distinct canonical award records.
Current Society evidence identifies Patrick Mullen as a two-time recipient. The inherited combined record is preserved while the USS Don award and the separately verified USS Wyandank award are represented as distinct canonical awards. 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.
- Rank at action
- Boatswain's Mate
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1865 - 1870
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Don
Second Award: Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Don, 1 May 1865. Engaged in picking up the crew of Picket Launch No. 6, which had swamped. Mullen, seeing an officer who at that time was no longer able to keep up and was below the surface of the water, jumped overboard and brought the officer to the boat, thereby rescuing him from drowning, which brave action entitled him to wear a bar on the medal he had already received at Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865.
Preserved earlier transcription
Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Wyandank during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865. Rendering gallant assistance to his commanding officer, Mullen, lying on his back, loaded the howitzer and then fired so carefully as to kill and wound many rebels, causing their retreat.
SECOND AWARD
G.O. No.: 62, 29 June 1865. Second award. Citation: Served as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Don, 1 May 1865. Engaged in picking up the crew of picket launch No. 6, which had swamped. Mullen, seeing an officer who was at that time no longer able to keep up and was below the surface of the water, jumped overboard and brought the officer to the boat, thereby rescuing him from drowning, which brave action entitled him to wear a bar on the medal he had already received at Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Patrick Mullen — current Society profile (Second Medal of Honor) ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31
current identity, service, action metadata, award multiplicity, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002564
- Transcription status
- Current-profile multi-award transcription
- Last source check
- 2026-08-31
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 59
- Entered service at
- Baltimore, Md.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b90fa318a517c6045f619db918c5669777ebc039f61c38edf3f904bea3b6c5c2
Legacy combined-row transcription preserved; separately documented current awards transcribed as distinct canonical award records.
Current Society evidence identifies Patrick Mullen as a two-time recipient. The inherited combined record is preserved while the USS Don award and the separately verified USS Wyandank award are represented as distinct canonical awards. 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.
