Medal of Honor Recipients

SECTION 7. And it is further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized to cause two hundred medals of honor to be prepared with suitable emblematic devices which shall be bestowed upon such petty officers, seaman, landsman, and marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other seamanlike qualities during the present war.

"An Act to Promote the Efficiency of the Navy, approved 21 December 1861.

Here all sailors and marines of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron who were bestowed the Medal of Honor as listed in General Orders are listed, including those who later forfeited their medals by reasons of misconduct.

Out of 128 Medals of Honors given to sailors and marines in the West Gulf Squadron, 76 percent of them were for one singular event, the Battle of Mobile Bay.

At least 28 of those 128 medals were never claimed by their rightful owners or forfeited due to misconduct or desertion and were still in the possession of the Department of the Navy as of FEB 6, 1898 per a New York Times article of that month. As of June 2013, that list of medals from the West Gulf Squadron still in the Navy's collection was eleven.

Recipients

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