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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Henry Morin

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002547Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

July 26–27, 1898

approaches to Caimanera, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate Second Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Marblehead

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Marblehead at the approaches to Caimanera, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 26 and 27 July 1898. Displaying heroism, Morin took part in the perilous work of sweeping for and disabling 27 contact mines during this period.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Henry Morin — 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-002558
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
500
Later or highest recorded rank
Boatswain
Archive transcription SHA-256
f5b0bfe7840437e8da33523483fb136617320ad6fbacf5b172ed9e5f859e47b9

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

Current reference profile expands the inherited name and confirms the action rank, later Boatswain rank, USS Marblehead, and the July 26–27, 1898 mine-sweeping action. 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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