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Medal of Honor Recipient

Richard Pile

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002605Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1872

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Medal of Honor

April 12, 1872

Greytown, Nicaragua

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Kansas

The Citation

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Serving on board the U.S.S. Kansas, Pile displayed great coolness and self-possession at the time Comdr. A. F. Crosman and others were drowned, near Greytown, Nicaragua, 12 April 1872, and by his extraordinary heroism and personal exertion prevented greater loss of

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Richard Pile — 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-002617
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
176
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
fe7f1f74faab3412b4c84d214f44e85bdb471dfc1d15c06fc5545f1009717e35

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Kansas, and the April 12, 1872 Greytown lifesaving 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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