On this day in history
April 6: Medal of Honor Actions
68 Medal of Honors earned on April 6 between 1862 and 2008.
April 6, 1862
Civil War · Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee · 4 recipients
April 6, 1865
Civil War · Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia · 60 recipients
JB
John Francis Benjamin
OB
Orrin Bennett
HB
Hugh Patterson Boon
Lewis Francis Brest
AB
Andrew Bringle
IC
Ivers S. Calkin
JC
John Chapman
AC
Albert Adams Clapp
TC
Trustrim Connell
FC
Francis Marion Cunningham
Thomas Ward Custer
TD
Thomas Davis
WD
Warren C. Dockum
Samuel E. Eddy
CE
Coron D. Evans
GF
George W. Ford
BG
Benjamin Gifford
JG
James H. Gribben
AH
Asel Hagerty
HH
Harris Smith Hawthorne
AH
Asbury F. Haynes
Henry Hoffman
WH
William T. Holmes
William M. Houlton
JH
John P. Hughey
Absalom Jordan
SK
Samuel P. Kenyon
JK
John Keough
JK
Joseph Kimball
HK
Harry Kline
ML
Morgan D. Lane
Aaron Steven Lanfare
SL
Smith Larimer
Charles Porter Mattocks
SM
Samuel O. McElhinny
WM
Walter F. McWhorter
JM
John William Menter
FM
Frank Miller
WM
William Powers Morris
WM
Walter L. Mundell
EN
Edwin Michael Neville
WN
William Henry Newman
EN
Elliott Malloy Norton
JN
John R. Norton
LN
Llewellyn Powell Norton
TP
Thomas Parker
IP
Irvin C. Payne
George J. Pitman
WP
William Porter
WR
William R. Richardson
RR
Rudolph R. Riddell
ES
Edwin F. Savacool
Emisire Shahan
WS
William Shepherd
JS
John Simmons
DS
David Southard
CT
Charles A. Taggart
CT
Charles Titus
CW
Charles E. Wilson
DW
Daniel A. Woods
Lewis Francis Brest
AB
Andrew Bringle
IC
Ivers S. Calkin
JC
John Chapman
AC
Albert Adams Clapp
TC
Trustrim Connell
FC
Francis Marion Cunningham
Thomas Ward Custer
TD
Thomas Davis
WD
Warren C. Dockum
Samuel E. Eddy
CE
Coron D. Evans
GF
George W. Ford
BG
Benjamin Gifford
JG
James H. Gribben
AH
Asel Hagerty
HH
Harris Smith Hawthorne
AH
Asbury F. Haynes
Henry Hoffman
WH
William T. Holmes
William M. Houlton
JH
John P. Hughey
Absalom Jordan
SK
Samuel P. Kenyon
JK
John Keough
JK
Joseph Kimball
HK
Harry Kline
ML
Morgan D. Lane
Aaron Steven Lanfare
SL
Smith Larimer
Charles Porter Mattocks
SM
Samuel O. McElhinny
WM
Walter F. McWhorter
JM
John William Menter
FM
Frank Miller
WM
William Powers Morris
WM
Walter L. Mundell
EN
Edwin Michael Neville
WN
William Henry Newman
EN
Elliott Malloy Norton
JN
John R. Norton
LN
Llewellyn Powell Norton
TP
Thomas Parker
IP
Irvin C. Payne
George J. Pitman
WP
William Porter
WR
William R. Richardson
RR
Rudolph R. Riddell
ES
Edwin F. Savacool
Emisire Shahan
WS
William Shepherd
JS
John Simmons
DS
David Southard
CT
Charles A. Taggart
CT
Charles Titus
CW
Charles E. Wilson
DW
Daniel A. Woods
April 6, 1945
World War II · Hamelin, Germany · 2 recipients
April 6, 2008
Afghanistan · Shok Valley, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan · 2 recipients




