May 6: Medal of Honor Actions

Civil War · Wilderness Campaign, Virginia · 13 recipients

Henry Harrison Bingham Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 Henri Le fevre Brown Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 TB Thomas Burk Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 PD Patrick Delacey First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 James Madison Drake Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864 EE Edmund English First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 HH Henry Hill Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 Leopold Karpeles Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 Joseph Bell Kemp First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 SR Stephen Rought Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 WT William P. Thompson Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦ Benjamin Franklin Tracy Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 JY James Marvin Young Private · Army Civil War · 1864

Indian Campaigns · Santa Maria Mountains, Arizona · 1 recipient

Philippine Insurrection · Hilongas, Leyte, Philippine Islands · 2 recipients

William Palmer MacLay Private · Army Philippine Insurrection · 1900 WT William George Thordsen Coxswain · Navy Philippine Insurrection · 1900

Vietnam War · near La Chu, Republic of Vietnam · 1 recipient

Robert Martin Patterson Specialist Fourth Class · Army Vietnam War · 1968

Vietnam War · Republic of Vietnam · 1 recipient

James Donnie Howe Lance Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1970 ✦