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Medal of Honor Recipient

William P. Johnston

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002437Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

March 2, 1864

Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Fort Hindman

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served on board the U.S.S. Fort Hindman during the engagement near Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864. Badly wounded in the hand during the action, Johnston, despite his wound, took the place of another man to sponge and lead one of the guns throughout the entire action in which the Fort Hindman was raked severely with shot and shell from the enemy guns.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William P. Johnston — 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-002448
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
32
Entered service at
Chicago, Ill.
Archive transcription SHA-256
266dd99a4cd2fe678964518e19e26dd489106c8b9bbdb35c38fecab9abc12fd0

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 exact current profile heading is William P Johnston; the controlled display name is William P. Johnston, and both forms remain preserved. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Fort Hindman; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Fort Hindman, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1864-03-02 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 Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value Harrisonburg, LA, 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.

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