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Pennsylvania Medal of Honor Memorial – Part 8
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on January 28, 2012
The memorial for Pennsylvania recipients of the Medal of Honor is located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County on the east side of the Capitol Building. A grove of trees (Soldiers and Sailors Grove) flanks the grounds where the name of each individual with the date and place of service is noted on a stone in the ground.
The Medal of Honor is awarded by the president on behalf of Congress to a person who distinguishes himself by gallantry at the risk of his or her own life above or beyond the call of duty while engaged in a military operation. The individual who is awarded the medal must have performed an act that is clearly above any act performed by his or her comrades. The medal signifies extraordinary merit and there is no higher military honor than can be given.
The Medal of Honor was created during the Civil War and its first recipients were men who served the Union cause in the Civil War. A total of 1522 medals were awarded for service in the Civil War, with approximately one-fifth of those going to persons with a connection to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For a complete list of the Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor, see List of American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients.
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Augustin Flanagan —– William Graul —— Thomas R. Hawkins
Joseph E. Johnson —–Alexander Kelly —— Theodore L. Kramer
Nathaniel A. McKown —— Daniel P. Reigle —– Sylvester Bonnaffon Jr.
James H. Bronson —— Daniel J. Murphy —— Abraham Greenawalt
James K. Merrifield —— William C. May —— Andrew Jackson Sloan
Jeremiah Z. Brown —— Richard Hamilton – Henry Brutsche
Michael Sowers —— Eugene B. Beaumont —— William C. Taylor
Archibald H. Rowand Jr. —— Richard Binder —— John Dempster
Edmund Haffee —– Nicholas Lear —— Joseph White
Richard Willis ——George W. McWilliams —— Isaac N. Fry
Continued tomorrow.
I am president of the Johnson County Nebraska Museum and Augustin D Flanagan born August 10,1844 of Loretto Pennsylvania died January 22 1924 in Tecumseh Nebraska was in company A 55 th Pennsylvania Infantry and received the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Chaffins Farm, I am looking for a picture of Flanagan and any other information That might be of interest regarding his life..