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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Holt

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002407Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1871

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Medal of Honor

July 3, 1871

Hamburg Harbor, Germany

Rank at action
Quarter Gunner
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Plymouth

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Hamburg Harbor, 3 July 1871. Jumping overboard at the imminent risk of his life, Holt, with a comrade, rescued from drowning one of a party who was thrown from a shore boat into a 4-knot, running tide while the boat was coming alongside the ship.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Holt — 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-002418
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
180
Accredited to
Kentucky
Archive transcription SHA-256
e372706160838fbf529a8dc1da499ad37651a0bb765c1511ae457f92f0312d20

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, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Plymouth; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Plymouth, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1871-07-03 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Hamburg Harbor, Germany; the current structured place Hamburg Harbor, Germany and the complete inherited geocoder value Harbor Drive, Elsberry, MO 63343, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.