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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Low

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002485Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1881

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Medal of Honor

February 15, 1881

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Tennessee

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Tennessee at New Orleans, La., 15 February 1881, and sustaining, until picked up by a boat's crew, N. P. Petersen, gunner's mate, who had fallen overboard.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Low — 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-002496
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
e858662731e580a7f83fa3867a95cbead5d1eef40593aaef30a34aa9438d259d

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. Documented aliases or alternate identity forms remain attached to the controlled identity: Evatt, George L.. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Tennessee; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Tennessee, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1881-02-15 and classifies the action under Interim 1871 - 1899; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; the current structured place New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value New Orleans, LA, USA remain preserved. 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.