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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Melville

U.S. Navy · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-002524Source-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

Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Hartford

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the flagship U.S.S. Hartford during action against rebel gunboats, the ram Tennessee, and Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Wounded and taken below to the surgeon when a shell burst between the two forward 9_inch guns, killing and wounding 15 men, Melville promptly returned to his gun on the deck and, although scarcely able to stand, refused to go below and continued to man his post throughout the remainder of the action resulting in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Charles Melville — 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-002535
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 Hampshire
Archive transcription SHA-256
1f2dd05559d624c03d0f9c8f7f0c1ef54b105056167abd5bbf711a113a2473c7

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

Current reference profile confirms Charles Melville, alias Ramsbottom, James, USS Hartford, and the August 5, 1864 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.