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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas H. Jordan

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002443Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 5, 1864

Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Galena

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Calena during the attack on enemy forts at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Securely lashed to the side of the Oneida which had suffered the loss of her steering apparatus and an explosion of her boiler from enemy fire, the Calena aided the stricken vessel past the enemy forts to safety. Despite heavy damage to his ship from raking enemy fire, Jordan performed his duties with skill and courage throughout the action.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Thomas H. Jordan — 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-002454
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
c5d4f6f5111fed5da1ef37b43f1e15ae3b18e572c526fb8171346552f96bb031

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

The canonical reference profile was recovered through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set and then confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The exact current profile heading is Thomas H Jordan; the controlled display name is Thomas H. Jordan, and both forms remain preserved. The current evidence expands or refines the inherited display name Thomas Jordan to Thomas H. Jordan; the inherited form remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Galena; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Galena, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-08-05 and classifies the action under U.S. Civil War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA; the current structured place Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The canonical reference profile was recovered through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set and then matched to the inherited Thomas Jordan record by service, rank, ship, action date, action place, and citation context. 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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