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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert William Montgomery

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002540Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

December 23, 1864

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Captain of the Afterguard
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Agawam

The Citation

Sources ↓
Montgomery served on board the U.S.S. Agawam, as one of a volunteer crew of a powder boat which was exploded near Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864. The powder boat, towed in by the Wilderness to prevent detection by the enemy, cast off and slowly steamed to within 300 yards of the beach. After fuses and fires had been lit and a second anchor with short scope let go to assure the boat's tailing inshore, the crew again boarded the Wilderness and proceeded a distance of 12 miles from shore. Less than 2 hours later the explosion took place, and the following day fires were observed still burning at the forts.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert William Montgomery — 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-002551
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
97f3d08549f5cb43622ab25ec2d10c147879e299d588abf8034f4c1cd8b4bd27

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

Controlled Society search recovered Robert William Montgomery and confirmed USS Agawam and the December 23, 1864 Fort Fisher powder-boat 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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