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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas S. Flood

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002325Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1862

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Medal of Honor

April 24, 1862–April 25, 1862

Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Boy
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Pensacola

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Pensacola in the attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip and at the taking of new Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. Swept from the bridge by a shell which wounded the signal quartermaster, Flood returned to the bridge after assisting the wounded man below and taking over his duties, "Performed them with coolness, exactitude and the fidelity of a veteran seaman. His intelligence and character cannot be spoken of too warmly."
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Served on board the U.S.S. Pensacola in the attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the taking of New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. Swept from the bridge by a shell which wounded the signal quartermaster, Flood returned to the bridge after assisting the wounded man below and taking over his duties, "Performed them with coolness, exactitude and the fidelity of a veteran seaman. His intelligence and character cannot be spoken of too warmly.",,,,

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Thomas S. Flood — 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-002336
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
e1c30fe382bd1df60b0dea38f44f13e24c69375db60662a975f044f556159168

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Thomas Flood to Thomas S. Flood; both renderings remain preserved. The exact current profile heading is Thomas S Flood; the controlled display name is Thomas S. Flood, and both forms remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Pensacola; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Pensacola, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1862-04-24 through 1862-04-25 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 Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Louisiana, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Jackson, NY 12965, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1862-04-24; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. The current rendered profile citation contains trailing punctuation artifacts; that exact current-source variant is retained separately while the inherited full citation and checksum remain canonical and unchanged. 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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