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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas Cramen

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002270Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1882

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Medal of Honor

February 7, 1882

Washington Navy Yard, D.C., USA

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Portsmouth

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Portsmouth, Washington Navy Yard, 7 February 1882. Jumping overboard from that vessel, Cramen rescued Charles Taliaferro, jack-of-the-dust, from drowning.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Thomas Cramen — 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-002281
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
a496c6aacb96abf2c0f3fb52942a5efa42cd0d5c65dd39b138cc24508d4e85cb

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. Portsmouth; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Portsmouth, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1882-02-07 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Washington Navy Yard, D.C., USA; the current structured place Washington Navy Yard, D.C., USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC, USA 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.