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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Wells

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-003310Source-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
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Richmond

The Citation

Sources ↓
As landsman and lookout on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Wells performed his duties with skill and courage throughout a furious 2-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.

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  1. William Wells — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-003325
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-01
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
45
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
2fcea561061eb0975e76ad4dbadc67d5b44ba2c4c8fab44f6a8ba5633354273a

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

The structured reference profile records Quartermaster; the citation narrative's lookout and landsman wording remains preserved as citation context rather than being silently normalized into the structured rank.

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