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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Sadler

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002643Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1881

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Medal of Honor

June 25, 1881

Coasters Harbor Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Rank at action
Captain of the Top
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Saratoga

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Saratoga, off Coasters Harbor Island, R.I., 25 June 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, Frank Gallagher, second class boy, who had fallen overboard.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Sadler — 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-002655
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
Massachusetts
Archive transcription SHA-256
d478c1b58ae4ee91f06af4f3c48a97939a4acd76c3b8804ae3bdfc2a7eddc5b5

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, U.S.S. Saratoga, and the June 25, 1881 Coasters Harbor Island lifesaving 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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