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Medal of Honor Recipient

Johannes Rouning

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002636Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1882

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Medal of Honor

May 7, 1882

Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA

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

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S. Tug Fortune, 7 May 1882, at Hampton Roads, Va., and rescuing from drowning James Walters, gunner's mate.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Johannes Rouning — 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-002648
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Archive transcription SHA-256
088b9f66b8b0873f55fd3e3b1bf63afe790c416020006c43d1966e9a19e953ca

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, U.S.S. Fortune, and the May 7, 1882 Hampton Roads lifesaving 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.