- Charles McAnally
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Charles McAnally Born May 12, 1836
Glenviggan, County Londonderry, IrelandDied 1905 (aged 68–69)
Austin, TexasAllegiance 
United States of America
UnionService/branch Union Army Rank Captain Unit Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry Battles/wars American Civil War Awards Medal of Honor Charles McAnally, (May 12, 1836–1905) was an officer in the Union Army who received the United States military's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the American Civil War.
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Biography
McAnally was born in May 1836 in Glenviggan, County Londonderry, Ireland and received the Medal of Honor on October 15, 1872 for heroic action in the American Civil War with the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry of the Union Army.[1] in which he was "[c]ut in head, shot left shoulder; also through right leg, knee and head".[2] He married first on August 24, 1871 in Burleson County, Texas to widow Frances 'Fanny' Veach, and resided for a while in Lee County, Texas. He married second on December 18, 1882 in Travis County, Texas to widow Julia Hofheintz[3] and lived for a while in Austin, Texas. In 1900, he was enumerated in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Elizabeth City, Virginia, which annotates that he had immigrated to the U.S. in 1852. He had one known child, a daughter, born in February 1880 in Texas.
McAnally died in 1905 in Austin, Texas.[4]
Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 2 August 1897.
Citation:
In a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy captured a flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound.
See also
- List of Medal of Honor recipients
- List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P
References
- ^ Michael Higgins: Captain Charles McAnally Co. D. 69th. Pa. Vols. Congressional Medal of Honour Recipient. Sgt. Peter McAnally Co. D. 69th. Pa. Vols. (The men from Glenviggen townland Cookstown Co.Tyrone.), http://www.69thpa.co.uk/page11.html, 25.8.2008.
- ^ "1890 Special Census Schedules -- Texas -- Union Veterans in Travis Co." in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March, 1977, p. 11.
- ^ "1890 Special Census Schedules..."
- ^ "Charles McAnally". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11659200. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
External links
- "Charles McAnally". Hall of Valor. Military Times. http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=342. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
Categories:- 1836 births
- 1905 deaths
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- Army Medal of Honor recipients
- Union Army officers
- People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
- People from Texas
- Foreign born Medal of Honor recipients
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