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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert N. Anderson

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002164Source-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 HonorRecorded presentation: 1863

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Medal of Honor

July 10, 1863

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Crusader and USS Keokuk
Presentation date
July 10, 1863

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Crusader and the Keokuk during various actions of those vessels. Carrying out his duties skillfully while on board the U.S.S. Crusader, Q.M. Anderson, on all occasions, set forth the greatest intrepidity and devotion. During the attack on Charleston, while serving on board the U.S.S. Keokuk, Q.M. Anderson was stationed at the wheel when shot penetrated the house and, with the scattering of the iron, used his own body as a shield for his commanding officer.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert N. Anderson — 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-002174
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Later or highest recorded rank
Acting Master's Mate
Accredited to
New Hampshire
Archive transcription SHA-256
6ddfa75ef5fcab34d97fadea2116127c60786ff2871887db877f1d3fc1d5f991

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

The inherited candidate set did not contain the controlling current reference profile at https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/robert-n-anderson. A controlled archival reference search recovered the profile; identity, service, rank, action context, and citation evidence match the inherited record, while every inherited candidate and stale URL remain preserved. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Robert Anderson to Robert N. Anderson; both forms remain preserved. The exact rendered source heading “Robert N Anderson” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “Robert N. Anderson”. The controlled action rank is Quartermaster; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Acting Master's Mate. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records USS Crusader and USS Keokuk; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1863-07-10 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Charleston, South Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Charleston, SC, USA 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.

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