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Medal of Honor Recipient

Richard Bates

U.S. Navy · Interim 1865 - 1870

MOH-RC-002182Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1866

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Medal of Honor

May 10, 1866

off Eastport, Maine, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1865 - 1870
Unit or command
USS Winooski

The Citation

Sources ↓
For heroic conduct in rescuing from drowning James Rose and John Russell, seamen of the U.S.S. Winooski, off Eastport, Maine, 10 May 1866.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Richard Bates — 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-002192
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
77
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
04b82ffe76c7fb4606a14c60a92057a9a759eb4567f91e5fc52ffa85a73bdeaa

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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current source documents the following alias or alternate identity form on the same controlled identity: Bates, Wyndham Richard. The current profile records USS Winooski; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1866-05-10 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is off Eastport, Maine, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Eastport, ME, USA remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Interim 1865 - 1870; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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