Medal of Honor
June 19, 1864
off Cherbourg, France
- Rank at action
- Boatswain
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Civil War
- Unit or command
- USS Kearsarge
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 S. Bond — 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-002211
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 45
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Warrant Officer Boatswain's Mate
- Accredited to
- Massachusetts
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- ee269222b5e0751b49bc0751971639f7e5ec519fa0a54b32e06fce9d35613b83
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited candidate set did not contain the controlling current reference profile at https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/william-s-bond. A controlled archival reference search recovered the profile; identity, service, rank, action context, and citation evidence match the inherited record, while every inherited candidate and stale URL remain preserved. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from William Bond to William S. Bond; both forms remain preserved. The exact rendered source heading “William S Bond” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “William S. Bond”. The controlled action rank is Boatswain; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Warrant Officer Boatswain's Mate. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records USS Kearsarge; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1864-06-19 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is off Cherbourg, France; the complete inherited geocoder value Cherbourg, France remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.