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Medal of Honor Recipient

William C. Connor

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002257Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

September 25, 1864

off Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Howquah

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Howquah on the occasion of the destruction of the blockade runner Lynx, off Wilmington, 25 September 1864. Performing his duty faithfully under the most trying circumstances, Connor stood firmly at his post in the midst of a crossfire from the rebel shore batteries and our own vessels.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William C. Connor — 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-002267
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
4c822a8ba36579c28b934793a8e9dca758be4720e7c7c2d144dd6458fc3f4ee9

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. Howquah; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-09-25 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 off Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Wilmington, DE, USA remains 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.