Medal of Honor
May 2, 1863–May 22, 1863
Great Gulf Bay & Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- Rank at action
- Coxswain
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Benton
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 P. Brownell — 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-002228
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 32
- Other source date wording
- 1863-05-22
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Acting Master's Mate
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 6a941f7f48c014ad7aafa45ad8ec43050d7ea937fbc5d3a66f196559e4f8f5f9
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 action rank Coxswain remains distinct from the later or highest rank Acting Master's Mate. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Benton; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1863-05-02 through 1863-05-22 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 Great Gulf Bay & Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Vicksburg, MS, USA remains preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1863-05-22; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation and supplemental official evidence is preserved separately. 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.