Medal of Honor
June 13, 1900–June 22, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Ordinary Seaman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Newark
- Presentation date
- March 22, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Samuel McAllister — 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-002516
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 84
- Other source date wording
- 1900-06-20
- Accredited to
- California
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 4dc8947b18c676356a1818dc155e0cfe5a1f801e6572f4d4eedf6e2f9013d3a0
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. Newark; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Newark, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-06-13 through 1900-06-22 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The Society structured action-date field is retained separately as 1900-06-20. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the current structured place Tientsin, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China remain preserved. The structured field gives June 20, while the rendered citation describes actions on June 13, 20, 21, and 22. The full non-contiguous chronology and structured date are retained separately. 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.