Medal of Honor
April 21, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Quartermaster Second Class
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- USS Florida
- Presentation date
- June 15, 1914
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Charles Francis Bishop — 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-002205
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 101
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Chief Quartermaster
- Accredited to
- Pennsylvania
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- e8b04759616cd8f21b68dab17fa812bd8d5ad6a6304ea23da59f3671dad38b60
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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The controlled action rank is Quartermaster Second Class; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Chief Quartermaster. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records USS Florida; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1914-04-21 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the complete inherited geocoder value Vera Cruz - SP, Brazil remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); 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.