Medal of Honor
June 22, 1881
Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Rank at action
- Captain of the Top
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1871 - 1899
- Unit or command
- U.S. Training Ship Minnesota
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William Lowell Hill — 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-002413
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 326
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Chief Boatswain's Mate
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 5498577693c1b65342ff81c6307bf96c0aa8539b0b43adb6d9041393b7299279
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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from William L. Hill to William Lowell Hill; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile also supplies the separately retained rank rendering Captain of the Top (Highest Rank: Chief Boatswain's Mate); action and later or highest ranks remain separately attributed. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S. Training Ship Minnesota; the current structured profile renders U.S. Training Ship Minnesota, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1881-06-22 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 Newport, Rhode Island, USA; the current structured place Newport, Rhode Island, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Newport, RI, 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.