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Medal of Honor Recipient

Pierre Leon

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002478Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

December 23, 1862–December 27, 1862

Yazoo River, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Captain of the Forecastle
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Baron De Kalb

The Citation

Sources ↓
Serving on board the U.S.S. Baron De Kalb, Yazoo River Expedition, 23 to 27 December 1862. Proceeding under orders up the Yazoo River, the U.S.S. Baron De Kalb, with the object of capturing or destroying the enemy's transports, came upon the steamers John Walsh, R. J. Locklan, Golden Age and the Scotland sunk on a bar where they were ordered fired. Continuing up the river, she was fired on, but upon returning the fire, caused the enemy's retreat. Returning down the Yazoo, she destroyed and captured larger quantities of enemy equipment and several prisoners. Serving bravely throughout this action, Leon, as captain of the forecastle, "d1stinguished himself in the various actions."

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Pierre Leon — 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-002489
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
4d774e964d8d51ed5a4f80b7a5937c65abba3546c3123bccbce84fcdfacd746d

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. Baron De Kalb; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Baron De Kalb, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1862-12-23 through 1862-12-27 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The Society structured action-date field is retained separately as 1862-12-23. The controlled historical action place is Yazoo River, Mississippi, USA; the current structured place Yazoo River, Mississippi, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Yazoo River, 1, LA, USA remain preserved. 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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