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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Blake

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002198Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

December 25, 1863

off Legareville, Stono River, John's Island, South Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Contraband
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, in an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Serving the rifle gun, Blake, an escaped slave, carried out his duties bravely throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's abandonment of positions, leaving a caisson and one gun behind.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

On board the U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, in an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Serving the rifle gun, Blake, an escaped slave, carried out his duties bravely throughout the engagement, which resulted in the enemy's abandonment of positions, leaving a caisson and one gun behind.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Blake — 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-002208
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
32
Entered service at
Virginia
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
08b0d8b27cdca6dd13cb88e46991b92975e357cbd2f15ba552008c670ef9fcb5

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 profile records U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1863-12-25 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is off Legareville, Stono River, John's Island, South Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Unknown remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; 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. The current profile’s Additional Details displays G.O. No. 32. That profile-level reference is preserved as metadata, but the underlying General Order was not examined and the exact-order gate remains pending.

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