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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas Mitchell

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002535Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1879

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Medal of Honor

November 17, 1879

Shanghai, China

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Richmond

The Citation

Sources ↓
Serving on board the U.S.S. Richmond, Mitchell rescued from drowning, M. F. Caulan, first class boy, serving with him on the same vessel, at Shanghai, China, 17 November 1879.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Thomas Mitchell — 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-002546
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
b12a23ec96227718d4388e8c1be6d2edc1be7470554d256f984558ab6de0a3ec

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Richmond, and the November 17, 1879 lifesaving action at Shanghai. 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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