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Woodside, New York

Calvary Cemetery

29 Medal of Honor recipients are buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, New York.

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Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Sunnyside, Maspeth, and Woodside, Queens, in New York City, United States. With about three million burials, it has the largest number of interments of any cemetery in the United States. Established in 1848, Calvary Cemetery covers 365 acres (148 ha) and is owned by the Archdiocese of New York and managed by the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Calvary Cemetery is divided into four sections, spread across the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Maspeth and Woodside. — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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U.S. Civil War20

Interim 1871 - 18993

Indian Campaigns3

Spanish-American War2

Recipients buried here

PB Philip Bazaar Ordinary Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1865 EB Edward Brown Jr. Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863

Thomas M. Burke Private · Army Civil War · 1863 JB James Byrnes Boatswain's Mate · Navy Civil War · 1863 DC Dennis Conlan Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 WC William C. Connor Boatswain's Mate · Navy Civil War · 1864

Thomas E. Corcoran Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1863 WC William James Creelman Landsman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1897

Cornelius Cronin Chief Quartermaster · Navy Civil War · 1864 JD John C. Donnelly Ordinary Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 PD Patrick H. Doody Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 GF George W. Ford First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 PG Patrick J. Ginley Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Francis Jay Herron Lieutenant Colonel · Army Civil War · 1862 TH Thomas Hoban Coxswain · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898

Samuel W. Kinnaird Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1864 FK Franz Kramer Seaman · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 WM William McNamara First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1872 JM James H. Morgan Captain of the Top · Navy Civil War · 1864 CM Charles Joseph Murphy First Lieutenant & Quartermaster · Army Civil War · 1861

Thomas Patrick Noonan Jr. Lance Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1969 ✦ JO James Rowan O'Beirne Captain · Army Civil War · 1862 JO John Francis O'Sullivan Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1874

James Quinlan Major · Army Civil War · 1862

Peter F. Rafferty Private · Army Civil War · 1862 RS Robert Augustus Sweeney Ordinary Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1881 RS Robert Augustus Sweeney Ordinary Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1883 HT Henry A. Thompson Private · Marine Corps Civil War · 1865 HZ Herman Ziegner Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1890