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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Corey

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002263Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1876

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Medal of Honor

July 26, 1876

Navy Yard, New York, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Navy Yard, New York, 26 July 1876. Showing heroic conduct, Corey endeavored to save the life of one of the crew of that ship who had fallen overboard from aloft.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Corey — 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-002274
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
215
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
e3211fe6db6e2f9ffad69dc5256f1b065232fe4a2edf9617519d2cd39e9ba7bd

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. Plymouth; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Plymouth, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1876-07-26 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 Navy Yard, New York, USA; the current structured place Navy Yard, New York, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value New York, NY, 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.