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Major & Assistant Adjutant General · U.S. Army

Oliver Duff Greene

Major & Assistant Adjutant General Oliver Duff Greene, Army, received the Medal of Honor for actions on September 17, 1862 in Antietam, Maryland during the Civil War.

U.S. Civil War September 17, 1862

Serving as a soldier in the U.S. Army, Major & Assistant Adjutant General Oliver Duff Greene received the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 17, 1862 in Antietam, Maryland during the Civil War. At the time he was serving with U.S. Army. Greene was 29 years old.

18 other service members also received the Medal of Honor for actions on the same day. The medal was presented on December 13, 1893, 31 years after the action. He later rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.

Greene was born on January 25, 1833 in Scott, Cortland County, New York. Greene died in 1904, at the age of about 71. He is buried at San Francisco National Cemetery in San Francisco, California.

Greene is one of 1,525 Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War and one of 678 credited to New York.

Official Medal of Honor citation

Formed the columns under heavy fire and put them into position.

Citation text: U.S. Government, public domain.

Battles and campaigns

Also served in: Utah War, American Civil War, Bleeding Kansas.

Life beyond the battlefield

Source: Wikidata.

Places

  • Born: Scott — map
  • Died: San Francisco — map
  • Buried: San Francisco National Cemetery — map

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Timeline

  1. January 25, 1833
    Born in Scott, Cortland County, New York
  2. September 17, 1862
    Act of valor — Antietam, Maryland
    Age 29. U.S. Army
  3. December 13, 1893
    Medal of Honor presented
  4. 1904
    Died
    Age about 71.
  5. Resting place
    San Francisco National Cemetery
    San Francisco, California

Biography

Oliver Duff (or Davis) Greene (January 25, 1833 – March 19, 1904) was a Union officer who received the Medal of Honor on December 13, 1893, for his action at the Battle of Antietam on September 16, 1862. Born in Scott, New York, Greene graduated from West Point in 1854, receiving his commission in the artillery. A staff officer for most of his career, he served as Adjutant-General of VI Corps during the Maryland Campaign. A Major at war's end, he was brevetted to brigadier general in March 1865. He received promotions to lieutenant colonel in February 1887, to colonel in July 1892, and retired in January 1897.

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Also honored for actions on September 17, 1862

Hillary Beyer Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1862 JC John Joice Carter Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1862 BC Benjamin Ham Child Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 Charles Franklin Cleveland Private · Army Civil War · 1862 John Cook Bugler · Army Civil War · 1862 RC Richard J. Curran Assistant Surgeon · Army Civil War · 1862 TG Theodore W. Greig Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1862 IG Ignatz Gresser Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 MH Marcus M. Haskell Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 Thomas Worcester Hyde Major · Army Civil War · 1862 SJ Samuel Johnson Private · Army Civil War · 1862 AL Adolph Libaire Captain · Army Civil War · 1862

See all 19 recipients for September 17, 1862 →

Same unit

William Charles Bryan Hospital Steward · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 CC Co-Rux-Te-Chod-Ish (Mad Bear) Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 John Oscar Skinner Contract Surgeon · Army Indian Campaigns · 1873 Henry Remsen Tilton Major and Surgeon · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV General · Army World War II · 1942 Leonard Wood Assistant Surgeon · Army Indian Campaigns · 1886

More Civil War recipients from New York

GM George E. Meach Farrier · Army Civil War · 1864 Isaac Swartwood Catlin Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 LC Luman Lewis Cadwell Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 JC James A. Campbell Private · Army Civil War · 1865 Henri Le fevre Brown Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 John Snyders Kenyon Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862
Sources. Service and award details compiled from the recipient record of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Wikidata and Wikipedia. The narrative summary is generated from these records. Spotted an error? Send a correction.