Near Phoenixville in Chester County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
New York Medal of Honor Recipients
PVT James Allen, USA SGT William Allen, USA PVT Bruce Anderson, USA SGT Lester Archer, USA SGT Eugene Ashley, Jr., USA SGT William G. Austin, USA LT William Avery, USA Mus John Baker, USA SGT Thomas A. Baker, USA PVT Neil Bancroft, USA COL Henry A. Barnum, USA PVT Carlton W. Barrett, USA COL Delavan Bates, USA PVT Richard Beddows, USA SGT Terrence Begley, USA SGT Gary B. Beikirch, USA SGT Bernard P. Bell, USA CPL John F. Benjamin, USA 1LT Samuel N. Benjamin, USA SGT Horatio L. Birdsall, USA CPL Henry H. Bickford, USA 1LT John W. Blunt, USA SGT Robert Boody, USA 2LT Peter M. Boehm, USA CPL Chester B. Bowen, USA PVT Emmer Bowen, USA 2LT George W. Boyce, USA SGT Thomas W. Bradley, USA PVT Abram B. Brant, USA PVT Felix Brannigan, USA PVT William J. Brewer, USA CPL Andrew Bringle, USA PVT August Bronner, USA SGT John Brosnan, USA CPL. Edward Brown, Jr., USA SGT Henry Le Fevre, USA CAPT Morris Brown, Jr., USA PVT Francis E. Brownell, USA LT George W. Brush, USA CAPT Christopher C. Bruton, USA CAPT Paul W. Bucha, USA PVT George A. Buchanan, USA PVT Denis Buckley, USA PVT Michael Burk, USA SGT Thomas Burk, USA PVT Thomas Burke, USA PVT William W. Burritt, USA CAPT Edmond Butler, USA 2LT John E. Butts, USA SGT Luman L. Cadwell, USA SGT Ivers S. Calkin, USA CPL Donald M. Call, USA PVT James A. Campbell, USA SGT James L. Carey, USA SGT Hugh Carey, USA PVT Warren Carman, USA COL Eugene A. Carr, USA 2LT John J. Carter, USA 1LT William H. Carter, USA PVT Orlando E. Caruana, USA CAPT James S. Casey, USA COL Is[a]ac S. Catlin, USA SGT Stephen E. Chandler, USA PVT Alaric B. Chapin, USA SGT Cornelius H. Charlton, USA MAJ Ralph Cheli, USA SGT James T. Clancy, USA Mus John E. Clancy, USA SGT Albert A. Clapp. USA SGT Francis J. Clark, USA CPL Harrison Clark, USA CAPT Dayton P. Clarke, USA PVT Charles F. Cleveland, USA MAJ James Coey, USA SGT Thomas D. Collins, USA SGT Wilbur E. Colyer, USA MAJ Hartwell B. Compson, USA SGT Martin Conboy, USA SGT James Congdon, USA (also James Madison) PVT James Connors, USA 1LT Stephen P. Corliss, USA PVT Richard H. Cosgriff, USA SGT John N. Coyne, USA SGT William H. Crosier, USA CPL James E. Cross, USA PVT Michael Crowley, USA CPL. Thomas Cullen, USA CPL Charles Cunningham, USA Surg Richard Curran, USA SGT Francis S. Currey, USA BGEN Newton M. Curtis, USA TSGT Peter J. Dalessondro, USA 1LT Andrew Davidson, USA PVT Thomas Davis, USA PVT Charles Day, USA COL Louis P. De Cesnola, USA PFC Charles N. De Glopper, USA SGT John Denny, USA CAPT William D. Dickey, USA SGT Robert H. Deitz, USA CAPT Hubert Dilger, USA 1LT Stephen H. Doane, USA PVT Warren C. Dockum, USA SGT Edward E. Dodds, USA CPL Charles W. Dolloff, USA SGT Michael A. Donaldson, USA PVT John Donnelly, USA PVT Timothy Donoghue, USA LCOL William J. Donovan, USA CPL Patrick Doody, USA SGT George H. Dore, USA PFC Parker F. Dunn, USA PVT David Edwards, USA SGT William D. Edwards, USA SGT George H. Eldridge, USA CAPT Andrew H. Embler, USA 2LT Robert T. Emmet, USA PVT James R. Evans, USA PVT Adelbert Everson, USA SGTMAJ Herbert E. Farnsworth, USA 2LT Almond E. Fisher, USA PVT James Flannigan, USA 1LT George W. Ford, USA PVT Frank O. Fournia, USA CPL Frank R. Fratellenico, USA PVT Archibald Freeman, USA PVT Willam Freeman, USA Surg Gabriel Grant, USA PFC Frank Gaffney, USA PFC William J. Grabiarz, USA PVT Peter W. Gardiner, USA SGT Richard Gasson, USA 1LT Thomas P. Gere, USA SSGT John G. Gertsch, USA PVT Benjamin Gifford, USA MAJ John C. Gilmore, USA PVT Patrick Ginley, USA PVT Joseph Gion, USA SGT T. B. Glover, USA PVT Phillip Goettel, USA SGT Charles A. Goheen, USA 1LT Edwin Goodrich, USA CAPT George E. Gouraud, USA MAJ Oliver D. Greene, USA 2LT Theodore W. Grieg, USA LT James H. Gribben, USA COL James G. Grindlay, USA PVT George Grueb, USA SP4 Peter M. Guenette, USA PVT Fitz W. Guerin, USA SGT Cornelius M. Hadley, USA SGT John H. Haight, USA PVT Asel Hagerty, USA Chap Francis B. Hall, USA 2LT Seymour H. Hall, USA PVT Nathan M. Hallock, USA PVT Mathew H. Hamilton, USA MAJ Pierpont M. Hamilton, USA PVT Edward R. Hanford, USA 1LT Abram P. Haring, USA SGT Charles D. Harris, USA PVT William E. Hart, USA CPL Harry Harvey, USA BGEN John P. Hatch, USA CPL Harris S. Hawthorne, USA CAPT William I. Heermance, USA PVT Joseph C. Hibson, USA SGT Dennis W. Hickey, USA SGT James Hill, USA Mus Benjamin F. Hilliker, USA PVT William G. Hills, USA PVT William P. Hogarty, USA SGT Lovilo N. Holmes, USA SGT Charles M. Holton, USA SGT Thomas Horan, USA CAPT Charles H. Houghton, USA SGT William Houlton, USA 1LT Charles F. Humphrey, USA CAPT Francis Irsch, USA Surg Bernard J. D. Irwin, USA SGTMAJ Eugene P. Jacobson, USA SGT Walter Jamieson, USA SGT Frederick Jarvis, USA SP6 Lawrence Joel, USA CPL Follett Johnson, USA SGT Wallace W. Johnson, USA CPL Edward Johnston, USA SGT William Jones, USA Col William A. Jones, III, USAF SGT Francis W. Judge, USA CPL John Kane, USA PVT Peter Kappesser, USA SGT Benjamin Kaufman, USA CPL August Kauss, USA SP5 John J. Kedenburg, USA SGTMAJ Joseph Keele, USA Trumpeter B. T. Keenan, USA PVT Joseph Keene, USA PVT William Keller, USA SGT Daniel Kelly, USA PVT Thomas Kelly, USA PVT Thomas Kelly, USA CPL Thomas J. Kelly, USA SGT John S. Kenyon, USA PVT Samuel P. Kenyon, USA CPL John Keough, USA SGT John Kiggins, USA MAJ Horatio C. King, USA 1LT Rufus King, Jr., USA PVT Harry Kline, USA 2LT Edward M. Knox, USA SGT William Koelpin, USA 2LT Andrew Kuder, USA PVT George Ladd, USA SGT William Laing, USA PVT Morgan D. Lane, USA SP4 George C. Lang, USA Mus J. C. J. Langbein, USA PFC Garfield M. Langhorn, USA 1LT Louis B. Lawton, USA PVT Benjamin Levy, USA PVT Frank Leslie, USA CAPT Adolphe Libaire, USA CAPT Angelo J. Litery, USA PVT Francis W. Lohnses, USA 2LT Oscar F. Long, USA PVT Joseph Longway USA SGT Andrew J. Lorish, USA COL George M. Love, USA LCOL Andre C. Lucas, USA CAPT William Ludgate, USA PVT Carl Ludwig, USA CPL Franklin W. Lutes, USA SGT Joel H. Lyman, USA PVT Michael Madden, USA SGT James Madison, USA (Also James Congdon) SGT Harry J. Mandy, USA PVT Richard C. Mangam, USA SGT Albert Marsh, USA PVT Bernard McBride, USA SGT William McBryar, USA SGT Patrick H. McEnroe, USA SGT Daniel. McFall, USA PVT Edward McGinn, USA PVT John McHugh, USA SGT Charles W. McKay, USA SGT George McKee, USA CAPT George G. McMurtry, USA PVT Charles H. McVeagh, USA CPL John P. McVean, USA Farrier George E. Meach, USA SGT Thomas Meagher, USA PVT Joseph F. Merrell, USA PVT George Merrill, USA SGT John Merrill, USA SGT John G. Merritt, USA CAPT Henry C. Myer, USA PVT Frank Miller, USA CPL George Miller, USA PVT John Miller, USA CAPT Albert L. Mills, USA SGT Frank W. Mills, USA CPL John H. Moffitt, USA CPL George Moquin, USA PVT Benjamin Morse, USA SGT Charles E. Morse, USA SGT Joseph E. Muller, USA LCOL Michael C. Murphy, USA CPL Thomas Murphy, USA SGT Thomas J. Murphy, USA 1LT Charles J. Murphy, USA SGT Robert C. Murray, USA PVT Zachariah C. Neahr, USA LT William H. Newman, USA PVT John Nihill, USA 2LT Robert Niven, USA LT John R. Norton, USA SGT Llewellyn P. Norton, USA CAPT Lee Nutting, USA CAPT James R. O'Beirne, USA PVT Peter O'Brien, USA LCOL William J. O'Brien, USA SGT John O'Callaghan, USA CAPT Paul A. Oliver, USA SGT Richard W. O'Neil, USA PVT Charles A. Orr, USA PVT John O'Sullivan, USA PVT Loron F. Packard, USA PVT Henry J. Parks, USA 1LT William R. Parnell, USA 1LT John H. Patterson, USA PVT Byron E. Pay, USA PVT Archie A. Peck, USA SGT George Peterson, USA Mus Herman Pfisterer, USA 1LT William Plimley, USA PVT Josiah Phillips, USA SGT William Porter, USA SGT Norman F. Potter, USA CPL Thomas Powers, USA 1LT Noble D. Preston, USA SGT Edgar P. Putnam, USA MAJ James Quinlan, USA PVT Peter Rafferty, USA PVT Charles F. Rand, USA Surg George E. Ranny, USA PVT Myron H. Ranny, USA 1LT Bernard J. Ray, USA CPL William H. Raymond, USA LT Morton A. Read, USA PVT George Reynolds, USA PVT Julius D. Rhodes, USA LT Rudolph Riddell, USA 1LT Robert S. Robertson, USA BGEN John C. Robinson, USA LT Charles M. Rockefeller, USA PVT Edward Rooney, USA, BGEN Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., USA SGT Valentine Rossbach, USA CPL Charles L. Russell, USA PVT James Russell, USA 1LT John T. Rutherford, USA CAPT William H. Sage, USA SGT John C. Sagelhurst, USA PVT Albert Sale, USA SGT Henry Sartwell, USA SSGT Joseph E. Schaefer, USA PVT John Schiller, USA Blacksmith George W. Schmal, USA PVT Martin Schubert, USA 1LT Theodore Schwan, USA PVT Philipp Schlachter, USA SGT David H. Scofield, USA PVT Robert B. Scott, USA COL Alexander Shaler, USA 2LT Charles W. Shea, USA SGT Robert F. Shipley, USA SGT Curtis F. Shoup, USA SGT Frank Shubert, USA MGEN Daniel E. Sickles, USA PVT John Simmons, USA CPL Ebenezer Skellie, USA PVT Reuben Smalley, USA SGT Alonzo Smith, USA CPL Charles E. Smith, USA SGT David L. Smith, USA PVT George W. Smith, USA PVT Richard Smith, USA CPL Wilson Smith, USA Saddler Joseph E. Sova, USA MGEN Julius Stahel, USA CPL Edward Stanley, USA PVT William G. Stephens, USA SGT John H. Starkins, USA 2LT George E. Stewart, USA SGT Lester R. Stone, Jr., USA SP4 Robert F. Stryker, USA 2LT Harlan J. Swift, USA PVT Benjamin Thackrah, USA CPL George W. Thompkins, USA PVT Allen Thompson, USA PVT George W. Thompson, USA Surg James H. Thompson, USA PVT James Thompson, USA SGT John Thompson, USA PFC William Thompson, USA SGT William P. Thompson, USA 1LT Clifford Thomson, USA 2LT Walter Thorn, USA CPL Eugene M. Tinkham, USA PVT Frank Tolan, USA 1LT Charles H. Tompkins, USA SGT Thomas Toohey, USA SGT Frederick E. Toy, USA COL Benjamin F. Tracy, USA 2LT William G. Tracy, USA CPL Andrew Traynor, USA MAJ Henry E. Tremain, USA PVT John Tribe, USA 1LT William B. Turner USA PVT Emmet Urell, USA PVT Michael Valente, USA LCOL Leon R. Vance, USA 1LT Louis J. Van Schaick, USA CPL Edward Van Winkle, USA MAJ Ernest Von Vegesack, USA TSGT Forrest L. Vosler, USA SGT Reidar Waaler, USA 1LT John Wainwright, USA Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright, USA PVT Jerry Wall, USA CAPT William H. Walling, USA PVT Martin Wambsgan, USA 1LT John E. Warren, Jr., USA CPL James C. Watson, USA BGEN Alexander S. Webb, USA PVT James Webb, USA PVT John H. Weeks, USA CAPT Henry C. Weir, USA SGT Charles H. Welch, USA SGT Michael Welch, USA SGT Stephen Welch, USA PVT Henry S. Wells, USA Bugler Thomas M. Wells, USA 1LT Frank West, USA SGT William Westerhold, USA 1LT Walter J. Will, USA SGT Leroy Williams, USA PVT Charles Windolph, USA LT William W. Winegar, USA 1LT Lewis S. Wisner, USA PVT James M. Young, USA CPL John Walsh, USA PVT Denis Buckley, USA CPT Andrew H. Embler, USA SGT Frederick W. Fuger, USA SGT William McBryar SGT William Wallace, USA PVT Thomas Kelly CPT Roger Hugh C. Donlon, USA CPL Tibor Rubin, USA 1LT Stephen Edward Karopczyc, USA PFC Leonard M. Kravitz PFC William F. Leonard, USA SGT Alfred B. Nietzel, USA 1LT Alonzo H. Cushing, USA PVT Henry Johnson, USA SGT William Shemin, USA SSG David G. Bellavia, USA
Dr. Mary E. Walker, Civilian, USA
Navy Marine Corps
WT William Ahern, USN BM1 Edward Allen, USN COX William Anderson, USN Cpl Edwin N. Appleton, USMC SA John F. Auer, USN SN James Avery, USN GM Henry Baker, USN LCpl Jedh C. Barker, USMC Landsman Gurdon H. Barter, USN SN David L. Bass, USN SN Richard Bates, USN C of A George Bell, USN Mach Floyd Bennett, USN BMC James H. Bennett, USN COX Asa Betham, USN SN Ernest H. Bjorkman, USN SC William Blageen, USN 2Lt John P. Bobo, USMC SN Thomas Bourne, USN Landsman Amos Bradley, USN BM Charles Bradley, USN GMC George F. Brady, USN BM John Breen, USN SN Andrew Brinn, USN Cpl Charles Brown, USMC QM James Brown, USN C of F John
Brown, USN C of T Robert Brown, USN COX William P. Brownell, USN Pvt Howard M. Buckley, USMC SN Thomas Burke, USN SN John M. Burns, USN
COX William McKnight, USN Pvt Michael McNamara, USMC QG Daniel S. Milliken, USN SN John Millmore, USN SN Charles Mills, USN Landsman Thomas Mitchell, USN Landsman Charles Moore, USN BM Francis Moore, USN C of T James H. Morgan, USN Cpl John Morris, USMC COX John G. Morrison, USN SN William Morse, USN COX John E. Murphy, USN BM Patrick Murphy, USN Pvt William H. Murray, USMC Landsman David Naylor, USN QM John H. Nibbe, USN QM William Nichols, USN SN Joseph B. Noil, USN LCpl Thomas P. Noonan, USMC SN Charles L. Nordsiek, USN BMC Isidor Nordstrom, USN Landsman J. W. Norris, USN GM2 William Oakley, USN Coalheaver Thomas O'Connell, USN SN Timothy O'Donoghue, USN MAA August Ohmsen, USN SN Christian Osepins, USN Cpl Miles M. Oviatt, USMC Pvt Michael Owens, USMC C of F George Parks, USN SN Joachim Pease, USN BM Thomas Perry, USN Sgt Lawrence D. Peters, USMC SN Alfred Peterson, USN MM1 George F. Phillips, USN BM William Phinney, USN LT John J. Powers, USN COX Edward Price, USN SN George Province, USN SN George Pyne, USN COX Joseph Quick, USN SN Charles Read, USN SN Patrick Regan, USN WTC Patrick Reid, USN QM Louis Richards, USN Sgt James S. Roantree,
USMC BM Alexander Robinson, USN BM Charles Robinson, USN C of A Thomas Robinson, USN QM Samuel F. Rogers, USN Landsman Henry P. Russell, USN SN John Russell, USN GM1 Charles S. Schepke, USN SN Fred J. Schnepel, USN COX George Schutt, USN MAA James Seanor, USN BMC Patrick Shanahan, USN SN Hendrick Sharp, USN QM James Sheridan, USN COX William Shipman, USN COX Lebbeus Simkins, USN FN Henry Simpson, USN SN Edwin Smith, USN SN James Smith, USN Landsman James Smith, USN C of F James Smith, USN SN John Smith, USN[sic] C of T John Smith, USN COX Oloff Smith, USN SN Thomas Smith, USN SN Walter B. Smith, USN
GM1 Wilhelm Smith, USN Cpl Willard Smith, USMC GM1 William Spicer, USN Sgt David Sprowle, USMC HMA Robert Stanley, USN MMC Thomas Stanton, USN CMAA John Stokes, USN Sgt Fred W. Stockham, USMC Landsman Richard Stout, USN SN James Sullivan, USN SN John Sullivan, USN COX Timothy Sullivan, USN QMC Robert Summers, USN SN Gustav A. Sundquist, USN SN Edward Swatton, USN Armorer George Taylor, USN COX Carl Thomass, USN COX William G. Thordsen, USN SN Samuel Triplett, USN BMC Jeremiah Troy, USN SN Albert Vadas, USN Cox Maurice Wagg, USN Sgt Edward A. Walker, USMC SN James A. Walsh, USN 1Lt Kenneth A. Walsh, USMC QGunner James Ward, USN COX David Warren, USN Landsman Henry S. Webster, USN
Ships Cook Adam Weissel, USN QM William Wells, USN MMC Karl Westa, USN SN Franklin L. Wilcox, USN BM1 Julius A. R. Wilke, USN Landsman Henry Wilkes, USN SN Frank Williams, USN BM John Williams, USN QM Robert Williams, USN Boilermaker August Wilson, USN BM John Woon, USN SN Charles B. Woram, USN QM Edward Wright, USN BM William Young, USN SN James Avery, USN QMS Thomas English, USN SN Hendrick Sharp, USN OS Edwin Smith, USN QM William Wells, USN COX John McCloy, USN QM John Cooper, USN SA2 August Chandron, USN Fireman 2 John Maxwell, USN BM2 William H. Morin, USN LT Michael P. Murphy, USN Col Donald G. Cook, USMC Cpl Jason L. Dunham, USMC 2ndLt Terrence C. Graves, USMC Cpl Robert E. O'Malley, USMC Cpl Anthony Casamento, USMC
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Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
Location. 40° 6.284′ N, 75° 28.167′ W. Memorial is near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in Chester County. It can be reached from River Trail. Marker is in the Medal of Honor Grove on the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge campus. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1601 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville PA 19460, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: New Jersey Medal of Honor Recipients (a few steps from this marker); Vermont Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Delaware Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Connecticut Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Kennedy Memorial Gazebo (within shouting distance of this marker); Michigan Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); District of Columbia Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Pennsylvania Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Phoenixville.
Also see . . .
1. Medal of Honor Recipients New York. Medal of Honor Historical Society of the United States website entry (Submitted on April 14, 2025, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
2. Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. (Submitted on August 1, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
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