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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Phinney

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002604Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1864

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Medal of Honor

August 5, 1864

Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Lackawanna

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram, Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Serving as a gun captain Phinney showed much presence of mind in managing the gun, and gave much needed encouragement to the crew during the engagement which resulted in the capture of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of Fort Morgan.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Phinney — 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-002616
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
abc78d82bdb78d4b1d0439ad926e98115ed0c085be8503d04062c86eb8a891be

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Lackawanna, and the August 5, 1864 Fort Morgan and Mobile Bay 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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