Charles McAnally
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Charles McAnally
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| Born | May 12, 1836 Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland |
| Died | 1905 (aged 68–69) Austin, Texas |
| Allegiance |  United States of AmericaUnion |
| Service/ |
 Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861 - 1865 |
| Rank |  Captain |
| Unit |  69th Pennsylvania Infantry |
| Commands held | Company D |
| 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.
Biography
McAnally was born in May 1836 in Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland.[1] He joind the army in August 1861, and was mustered out with the rest of his regiment in July 1865. [2]
McAnally was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 15, 1872 for heroic action as a first lieutenant in the American Civil War with the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry of the Union Army in which he was "[c]ut in head, shot left shoulder; also through right leg, knee and head".[3]
After the war, he married on August 24, 1871 in Burleson County, Texas to widow Frances 'Fanny' Veach, and purchased farmland in Lee County, Texas. He married second on December 18, 1882 in Travis County, Texas to widow Julia Hofheintz[3] and lived for some time in the city of Austin, Texas. He had one known child, a daughter, born in February 1880 in 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 United States in 1852. He reportedly 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
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.
- ↑ Veteran's Card File
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "1890 Special Census Schedules -- Texas -- Union Veterans in Travis Co." in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March, 1977, p. 11.
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- 1836 births
- 1905 deaths
- 19th-century Irish people
- Irish soldiers in the United States Army
- People from County Londonderry
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
- Union Army officers
- People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
- People from Austin, Texas
- Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients
- American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
