User:Jwillbur/Medal of Honor

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Missing articles[edit]

See User:Jwillbur/MOHneeded, only Indian Wars and American Civil War recipients remain.

Civilians[edit]

8 civilians, 5 remaining - 2 Indian Wars scouts, 1 Civil War scout, 2 Civil War boat pilots

Special occupations[edit]

  1. Chaplain Francis B. Hall
  2. Chaplain John M. Whitehead
  3. Assistant Surgeon Joseph K. Corson
  4. Assistant Surgeon Richard J. Curran
  5. Assistant Surgeon Andrew Davidson (Army surgeon)
  6. Assistant Surgeon George E. Ranney
  7. Assistant Surgeon Jacob F. Raub
  8. Surgeon Gabriel Grant
  9. Surgeon J. Harry Thompson

Posthumous recipients[edit]

Indian Wars: USACMH says 13, we have only 10 marked

Civil War: USACMH says 32, we have only 20 marked, with 16 remaining

Note: Hugh Logan and Charles H. Smith (Medal of Honor) originally thought to be posthumous, but they were not [1]

Eventual generals[edit]

Officers[edit]

  • Indian Wars:
  1. First Lieutenant Robert McDonald (Medal of Honor)
  2. First Lieutenant Henry Romeyn
  3. Captain Myles Moylan
  • Civil War:
  1. Second Lieutenant John J. Carter
  2. Second Lieutenant Orville T. Chamberlain
  3. Second Lieutenant Charles D. Copp
  4. Second Lieutenant Josiah M. Curtis
  5. Second Lieutenant James M. Drake
  6. Second Lieutenant Frederick W. Fout
  7. Second Lieutenant Thomas N. Graham
  8. Second Lieutenant Theodore W. Greig
  9. Second Lieutenant Henry Seymour Hall
  10. Second Lieutenant Edward M. Knox
  11. Second Lieutenant Andrew Kuder
  12. Second Lieutenant Robert Niven
  13. Second Lieutenant Elliott M. Norton
  14. Second Lieutenant Augustus I. Robbins
  15. Second Lieutenant Harlan J. Swift
  16. Second Lieutenant Charles B. Tanner
  17. Second Lieutenant William G. Tracy
  18. Second Lieutenant James D. Vernay
  19. First Lieutenant David E. Buckingham
  20. First Lieutenant John K. Bucklyn
  21. First Lieutenant Frank G. Butterfield
  22. First Lieutenant James I. Christiancy
  23. First Lieutenant John W. Clark (Medal of Honor)
  24. First Lieutenant Charles H. Clausen
  25. First Lieutenant David L. Cockley
  26. First Lieutenant Oliver Colwell
  27. First Lieutenant Andrew Davidson (soldier)
  28. First Lieutenant Allan H. Dougall
  29. First Lieutenant Albert E. Fernald
  30. First Lieutenant George W. Ford
  31. First Lieutenant Eugene W. Ferris
  32. First Lieutenant William E. Goodman
  33. First Lieutenant Abram P. Haring
  34. First Lieutenant Moses Harris (soldier)
  35. First Lieutenant Gardner C. Hawkins
  36. First Lieutenant Joseph Hedges (Medal of Honor)
  37. First Lieutenant James Hill (Medal of Honor recipient from Iowa)
  38. First Lieutenant George W. Hooker
  39. First Lieutenant Erastus W. Jewett
  40. First Lieutenant Joseph E. Johnson (soldier)
  41. First Lieutenant Simeon T. Josselyn
  42. First Lieutenant Jacob Koogle
  43. First Lieutenant Charles H. McCleary
  44. First Lieutenant Nineveh S. McKeen
  45. First Lieutenant Alexander H. Mitchell
  46. First Lieutenant Charles J. Murphy
  47. First Lieutenant Menomen O'Donnell
  48. First Lieutenant Thomas H. L. Payne
  49. First Lieutenant Frederick Phisterer
  50. First Lieutenant William Plimley
  51. First Lieutenant Noble D. Preston
  52. First Lieutenant Robert S. Robertson
  53. First Lieutenant John T. Rutherford
  54. First Lieutenant Louis J. Sacriste
  55. First Lieutenant Cyrus Sears
  56. First Lieutenant Henry I. Smith
  57. First Lieutenant George H. Stockman
  58. First Lieutenant Francis M. Smith (Medal of Honor)
  59. First Lieutenant Clifford Thomson
  60. First Lieutenant Daniel D. Wheeler
  61. First Lieutenant Lewis S. Wisner
  62. First Lieutenant H. Clay Wood
  63. First Lieutenant Evan M. Woodward
  64. Lieutenant William Brant
  65. Lieutenant Charles A. Clark
  66. Lieutenant James H. Gribben
  67. Lieutenant Jeremiah Kuder
  68. Lieutenant Sylvester H. Martin
  69. Lieutenant William H. Newman
  70. Lieutenant John R. Norton
  71. Lieutenant James J. Purman
  72. Lieutenant Morton A. Read
  73. Lieutenant Rudolph Riddell
  74. Lieutenant Charles M. Rockefeller
  75. Lieutenant William T. Simmons
  76. Captain John Harties Brown
  77. Captain Joseph F. Carter
  78. Captain Dayton P. Clarke
  79. Captain Walter H. Cooke
  80. Captain George W. Corliss
  81. Captain James M. Cutts
  82. Captain Andrew H. Embler
  83. Captain Lewellyn G. Estes
  84. Captain John B. Fassett
  85. Captain Charles G. Gould
  86. Captain M. R. William Grebe
  87. Captain Smith H. Hastings
  88. Captain William L. Heermance
  89. Captain Thomas W. Hoffman
  90. Captain Samuel B. Horne
  91. Captain Charles H. Houghton
  92. Captain Samuel Hymer
  93. Captain Francis Irsch
  94. Captain Thomas R. Kerr
  95. Captain Jonathan C. Kirk
  96. Captain Samuel McConnell (Medal of Honor)
  97. Captain Augustus Merrill
  98. Captain Henry C. Meyer
  99. Captain Henry A. Miller
  100. Captain William E. Miller (Medal of Honor)
  101. Captain George W. Mindil
  102. Captain Edwin M. Neville
  103. Captain Henry C. Nichols
  104. Captain Lee Nutting
  105. Captain James R. O'Beirne
  106. Captain Patrick H. Pentzer
  107. Captain James Pipes
  108. Captain James Parke Postles
  109. Captain Milton Russell
  110. Captain Edwin F. Savacool
  111. Captain J. Wallace Scott
  112. Captain S. Rodmond Smith
  113. Captain Moses Veale
  114. Captain William H. Walling
  115. Captain Edward W. Whitaker
  116. Captain George Wilhelm
  117. Captain Richard H. Wood
  118. Captain Albert D. Wright
  119. Captain Henry C. Weir
  120. Major James Coey
  121. Major John C. Gilmore
  122. Major Dennis T. Kirby
  123. Major Charles P. Mattocks
  124. Major Robert L. Orr
  125. Major William H. Powell (Medal of Honor)
  126. Major Alfred J. Sellers
  127. Major William J. Sperry
  128. Major John W. Steele
  129. Major Sidney W. Thaxter
  130. Major Hampton S. Thomas
  131. Major Henry E. Tremain
  132. Lieutenant Colonel John Coughlin (soldier)
  133. Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Hapeman
  134. Lieutenant Colonel William Y. W. Ripley
  135. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew B. Spurling
  136. Lieutenant Colonel Frederic W. Swift
  137. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph S. Smith (Medal of Honor)
  138. Lieutenant Colonel Victor Vifquain
  139. Colonel Francis S. Hesseltine
  140. Colonel Charles Henry Smith (Medal of Honor)

Navy personnel[edit]

  • Total: 52 remaining, all from the Civil War

By battle[edit]

Civil War Army personnel[edit]

lots

By battle[edit]

lots

Battle of Gettysburg[edit]

Table: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jwillbur/sandbox&oldid=562778525

40 remaining out of 61

  1. George G. Benedict
  2. Casper R. Carlisle
  3. Harrison Clark
  4. John E. Clopp
  5. George H. Dore
  6. John B. Fassett
  7. Christopher Flynn (Medal of Honor)
  8. Edward L. Gilligan
  9. John W. Hart
  10. William B. Hincks
  11. Thomas Horan
  12. Francis Irsch
  13. Benjamin H. Jellison
  14. Wallace W. Johnson
  15. Edward M. Knox
  16. Bernard McCarren
  17. George W. Mears
  18. John Miller (Medal of Honor 1863)
  19. William E. Miller (Medal of Honor)
  20. Harvey M. Munsell
  21. Henry D. O'Brien
  22. James Pipes
  23. James Parke Postles
  24. James J. Purman
  25. William H. Raymond
  26. Charles W. Reed
  27. J. Monroe Reisinger
  28. John H. Robinson (Medal of Honor)
  29. Oliver P. Rood
  30. George W. Roosevelt
  31. J. Levi Roush
  32. James M. Rutter
  33. Alfred J. Sellers
  34. Marshall Sherman
  35. Thaddeus S. Smith
  36. Charles Stacey (Medal of Honor)
  37. James B. Thompson
  38. Andrew J. Tozier
  39. Jerry Wall
  40. James Wiley (Medal of Honor)

Indian Wars personnel[edit]

Expansion and improvement[edit]

Candidates for improvement:

  • Square recipient counts
    • Army done except civil war, peacetime, indian wars
      • Civil: ours ?, Army's 1198
      • peacetime: our list has 2, Army says 3
      • indian wars:
    • Navy done except Span-Am, Civil, and peacetime
    • Air Force done, not including predecessor orgs
    • Marines done
    • Counts in list leads
    • Find duplicate article titles
      • not done: peacetime, veracruz, indian, civil

References[edit]

  • Gaffen, Fred (1996). Cross-Border Warriors: Canadians in American Forces, Americans in Canadian Forces. Toronto: Dundurn Group. p. 218. ISBN 9781554881390.
  • The pictorial book of anecdotes and incidents of the war of the rebellion
  • Iowa Medal of Honor Heroes
  • Uncle Sam's Medal of Honor
  • The Story of American Heroism. Springfield, Ohio: J.W. Jones. 1897.
  • Holt, Dean W. (2010). American Military Cemeteries. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 80. ISBN 9780786440238.

New York Times references[edit]

finished page 17

Portraits of Valor[edit]

Google books, Amazon

<ref name="collier">{{Cite book
  | last        = Collier
  | first       = Peter
  | title       = Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
  | publisher   = [[Workman Publishing Company]]
  | date        = 2006
  | location    = New York
  | page        = 
  | isbn        = 9781579653149
  | url         = http://books.google.com/books?id=EqH-BJ-k0NsC }}</ref>

Deeds of Valor[edit]

Volume 1 - Army[edit]
Volume 2 - Navy and Marine Corps[edit]
  • June 26, 1861, Mathias Point
  • The First to Hoist the Flag, pg. 7
  • Cutting Out of the Royal Yacht, 8
  • Naval Heroes at Forts Henry and Donelson, 10
  • A Desperate Situation
  • A Famous Sea Duel, 15
  • Forcing the Entrance to the Mississippi, 18
  • Amidst Death and Destruction, 25
  • Carondelet and Arkansas Conflict, 30
  • A Daring Reconnoissance, 35
  • Foundering of the Monitor, 36
  • At Stono River, 43
  • Hauled the fires and saved the ship, 44
  • The attack on Vicksburg, 46
  • Refused to leave his fallen comrades, 49
  • Surprised by the Rebels, 50
  • A conspicuous mark for bullets, 53
  • Loss of the Signal and Covington, 56
  • An attempt to destroy the Albemarle, 57
  • The sinking of the Alabama, 59
  • Heroic deeds at Mobile Bay, 64
  • pg 67 and 68?
  • The blowing up of the Albemarle, 73
  • The capture of Plymouth, 77
  • Admiral Porter at Fort Fisher, 78
  • Two thousand miles in a gig, 87
  • Undaunted heroism of sailors, 91
  • In an arctic storm, 94
  • Heroic instances of life-saving, 97


  • Thrilling incidents from Arizona, 105
  • The Minnesota massacre, 111
  • The Chivington butchery, 120
  • Saved from starvation, 121
  • The Fetterman massacre, 131
  • Thirty-two against three thousand, 133
  • On the Arickaree, 137
  • Exciting scout for a trail, 141
  • Coolness prevented a disaster, 146
  • Death of Chief Black Kettle, 150
  • A well-planned surprise, 154
  • The Sixth Cavalry and the Indians, 158
  • Six men against 400 Comanches, 160
  • Daring single-handed combat, 165
  • Where the Comanches were put to flight, 167
  • The battle in the lava beds, 171
  • Rescuing the Germaine girls, 179
  • With General Miles through Texas, 184
  • Hand-to-hand fights with Indians, 192
  • Snatched from a horrible fate
  • Chasing Indians by railroad, 196
  • Adventures with Indians in 1875, 200
  • The Little Big Horn, 205
  • Three daring couriers, 225
  • Battle of Wolf Mountain and Cedar Creek, 227
  • Capture of Lame Deer's village, 234
  • Campaign against the Nez Perces, 239
  • Battle of the Big Hole, 244
  • Chief Joseph's camp surprised, 248
  • The Battle of Milk River, 253
  • Hunting Indians in the snow-drifts of Montana, 260
  • The surrender of Rain-In-The-Face, 264
  • Pursuit of Chief Victoria, 269
  • Tularosa saved by twenty-five cavalrymen, 273
  • Saved from annihilation, 277
  • The treachery at Cibicu Creek, 282
  • Treachery of the scouts avenged, 288
  • Chasing Geronimo and Natchez, 294
  • Hazardous, but successful, 299
  • The Indian at last subdued, 315
  • The memorable outbreak of 1890, 316
  • The perils of winter campaigning, 327
  • Fought three Mexicans single-handed, 333
  • The Bear Island uprising, 335
  • An officer's devotion to his men, 338


  • The Maine catastrophe, 345
  • The Battle of Manila Bay, 349
  • Organizing the fleet and expedition corps, 356
  • Cutting the cables at Cienfuegos, 359
  • The sinking of the Merrimac, 369
  • Landing in Cuba, 375
  • El Caney and San Juan, 380
  • Naval battle of Santiago, 394
  • Closing events of the Santiago campaign, 403
  • Ran into an ambuscade
  • The Porto Rican campaign, 411


  • The first battle, 418
  • The second defeat, 423
  • The burning of Manila, 428
  • The insurgents defeated again, 431
  • The campaign of 1899 in Luzon, 432
  • Heroes on the battlefield, 440
  • The capture of Gilmore's party, 443
  • The battle of San Jacinto, 452
  • Chasing Aguinaldo, 455
  • Death of General Pilar, 458
  • Death of General Lawton, 460
  • The death of Colonel Stotsenburg, 463
  • Capture of Aguinaldo, 466
  • The massacre at Balangiga, 470


  • The Samoan imbroglio, 477


  • Uprising of the Boxers, 482
  • Admiral Seymour's expedition, 489
  • The capture of the Taku forts, 496
  • The capture of Tien Tsin, 497
  • The events in Pekin, 506
  • The second relief expedition, 514


  • Terrors of the arctic
  • The Jeannette expedition
  • The Greely expedition, 532

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Living recipients[edit]

Name Class Inline Refs Portraits of Valor Image search Notes
John Baca Start Some yyn
Donald E. Ballard Start Yes yyn Colonel
Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. B Some nnn Federal govt post, Colonel
Gary B. Beikirch Start Some ynn
Patrick Henry Brady Start Some nnn General
Paul Bucha B Yes yyy Politically active
Hector A. Cafferata, Jr. Start Some ynn
Jon R. Cavaiani Stub Some yyy Sergeant Major
Charles H. Coolidge Stub Some yyy
Bruce P. Crandall B Yes N/A nnn Colonel, Battle of Ia Drang
Francis S. Currey Start Yes yyy
Sammy L. Davis Start Yes nnn
Bud Day B Some nnn Politically active, colonel
Duane E. Dewey Start Some nnn
Drew Dennis Dix Start Yes nnn State govt post
Roger Donlon Start Some yyy Colonel
Walter D. Ehlers Stub None nnn D-Day
Frederick Edgar Ferguson Stub Yes nnn
Bernard F. Fisher B Some nnn Politically active, colonel
Michael John Fitzmaurice Stub Yes nnn
James P. Fleming Start None nnn Colonel
Robert F. Foley Start None nnn General
Wesley L. Fox Start None yyy Marine Corps legend, Colonel
Harold A. Fritz Stub Yes yyy
Salvatore Giunta Start Yes N/A nnn First living recip since Vietnam
Charles C. Hagemeister Stub Yes ynn
John D. Hawk Start Yes nnn
Frank A. Herda Stub None N/A ynn
Rodolfo P. Hernandez B Some nyy
Thomas J. Hudner, Jr. Start None nnn State govt post, Navy captain
Einar H. Ingman, Jr. Start Yes ynn
Robert R. Ingram Stub Some nnn
Daniel Inouye Start Some nnn Senator
Arthur J. Jackson Start Some nnn
Joe M. Jackson Start Some nnn Colonel
Jack H. Jacobs Start Some nnn TV analyst, Colonel
Don J. Jenkins Stub Some nnn
Thomas G. Kelley Stub Some nnn State govt post, Navy captain
Allan J. Kellogg Start Some nnn Sergeant Major, selected Vietnam Unknown Soldier
Bob Kerrey Start Some nnn Senator, governor
Thomas James Kinsman Stub None N/A ynn
Howard V. Lee Start Yes nnn
Peter C. Lemon Stub Some N/A nnn
Charles Liteky Stub Some N/A ynn Activist
Gary L. Littrell Stub Some ynn Sergeant Major
James E. Livingston Start Some nnn General
Allen James Lynch Start Yes nnn
Walter Joseph Marm, Jr. Stub None nnn Colonel
Robert D. Maxwell Stub Some nnn
Vernon McGarity Stub Yes N/A nnn
John J. McGinty III Start Some nnn
Dakota Meyer Stub Yes N/A nnn
Hiroshi H. Miyamura Start None yyy
Ola L. Mize Stub Yes ynn Colonel
Robert J. Modrzejewski Start Some yyn Colonel
Thomas R. Norris Start Some nnn
Robert Emmett O'Malley Start Yes nnn
Nicholas Oresko Stub Yes ynn Oldest
Robert Martin Patterson Stub Some nnn Sergeant Major
Leroy Petry B Yes N/A nnn
Richard A. Pittman Start Some nnn
Alfred V. Rascon Start Some nnn Federal govt post
Ronald E. Ray Start Yes Yes yyy Govt post
Gordon Ray Roberts Start Some yyy On active duty, Colonel
Wilburn K. Ross Stub None N/A nnn
Ronald E. Rosser Start Yes ynn
Tibor Rubin Start Some nnn Holocaust survivor
George T. Sakato Start Yes ynn
Clarence Sasser Stub Some yyy
Robert E. Simanek Stub None ynn
James M. Sprayberry Stub Yes ynn
James L. Stone Start Some ynn Colonel
Kenneth E. Stumpf Stub None nnn Sergeant Major
James Allen Taylor Stub None nnn
Brian Thacker Stub Some nnn
Michael E. Thornton Start Some nnn
Leo K. Thorsness B Some nnn State legislator, Colonel
Jay R. Vargas Start Some nnn State govt post, Colonel
Ernest E. West Stub Some yyy
Gary Wetzel Stub Yes nnn
Hershel W. Williams B Some yyy

Eventual generals[edit]

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Politicians[edit]

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Controversial[edit]

Michigan ties[edit]

Indian wars
Civil War

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Nominees[edit]

Iraq and Afghanistan[edit]

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Non-combat recips[edit]

Currently on the Civil War list:

Recent recipients[edit]

This table counts number of medals awarded. To find the number of recipients, subtract 19 from the total, 2 from WWI posthumous total, 2 from Marine Corps total, 8 from Navy total, and 9 from Army total. "For actions since the beginning of World War II" add WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan + 3 unknown soldiers.