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Medal of Honor Recipient

David L. Bass

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002181Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1865

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Medal of Honor

January 15, 1865

Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Minnesota
Presentation date
June 22, 1865

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Minnesota in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865. Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, S/man Bass advanced to the top of the sand hill and partly through the breach in the palisades despite enemy fire which killed and wounded many officers and men. When more than two-thirds of the men became seized with panic and retreated on the run, he remained with the party until dark, when it came safely away, bringing its wounded, its arms, and its colors.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. David L. Bass — 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-002191
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
8244c81aab9f2253b00e3db258df584bf3c3e4a7333c735eec2c6a753a62e68a

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 exact rendered source heading “David L Bass” is preserved separately from the canonical display form “David L. Bass”. The current profile records USS Minnesota; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1865-01-15 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Fort Fisher Historic Museum, 1610 South Fort Fisher Boulevard, Kure Beach, NC 28449, USA 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.