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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Jordan

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002442Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1863

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Medal of Honor

April 14, 1863

Nansemond River, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Coxswain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Minnesota (temporarily on U.S.S. Mount Washington)

The Citation

Sources ↓
Attached to the U.S.S. Minnesota and temporarily serving on the U.S.S. Mount Washington, during action against the enemy in the Nansemond River, 14 April 1863. When the Mount Washington drifted against the bank following several successive hits which struck her boilers and stopped her engines, Jordan boarded the stricken vessel and, for 6 hours as fierce artillery and musketry continued to rake her decks, calmly assisted in manning a 12-pound howitzer which had been mounted on the open hurricane deck.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Jordan — 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-002453
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Other source unit wording
U.S.S. Minnesota (temporarily on U.S.S. Mount Washington
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
131d3845b9f4ce322738ed2453f526d59d7d07b2b487bd65c2195a9b0e8c2256

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. Minnesota (temporarily on U.S.S. Mount Washington); the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Minnesota (temporarily on U.S.S. Mount Washington, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1863-04-14 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Nansemond River, Virginia, USA; the current structured place Nansemond River, Virginia, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Nansemond River, Suffolk, VA, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The current structured unit omits the closing parenthesis in U.S.S. Minnesota (temporarily on U.S.S. Mount Washington. The controlled unit restores the punctuation while preserving the exact current-source rendering as a variant. 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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