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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas C. Cooney

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002260Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

May 11, 1898

Cardenas, Cuba

Rank at action
Chief Machinist
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Winslow

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S. Torpedo Boat Winslow during the action at Cardenas, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Following the piercing of the boiler by an enemy shell, Cooney, by his gallantry and promptness in extinguishing the resulting flames, saved the boiler tubes from burning out.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Thomas C. Cooney — 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-002270
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
497
Later or highest recorded rank
Chief Carpenter
Accredited to
New Jersey
Archive transcription SHA-256
937981828feba9c031cb74c9669924828777bd69cd8092ac52c5e7efe1c39b80

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 exact current profile heading is Thomas C Cooney; the controlled display name is Thomas C. Cooney, and both forms remain preserved. The action rank Chief Machinist remains distinct from the later or highest rank Chief Carpenter. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Winslow; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Winslow, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1898-05-11 and classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Cardenas, Cuba; the current structured place Cardenas, Cuba and the complete inherited geocoder value Cardenas, Cuba remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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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