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Medal of Honor Recipients from Delaware

13 Medals of Honor are credited to Delaware, and 13 recipients were born there; 9 are buried in the state.

13credited

13born here

9buried here

0living

Veteran help in Delaware War memorials & museums

By conflict

U.S. Civil War12

Spanish-American War1

Philippine Insurrection1

Indian Campaigns1

Hometowns (credited)

Wilmington4

Wilmimgton3

Dover1

Middletown1

Delaware City1

Felton1

Cemeteries in Delaware

Wilmington Cemetery2 recipients
Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery1 recipient
Du Pont Family Cemetery1 recipient
Glenwood Cemetery1 recipient
Old Cathedral All Saints Cemetery1 recipient
Silver Brook Cemetery1 recipient
Riverside Cemetery1 recipient
Glebe Cemetery1 recipient

Recipients born in or credited to Delaware

A–Z

CB Charles H. Baldwin Coal Heaver · Navy Civil War · 1864 DB David Eastburn Buckingham First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 LC Leonard B. Chadwick Apprentice First Class · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 JC James Phillip Connor Sergeant · Army World War II · 1944

Henry Algernon du Pont Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 AH Allexander Hand Quartermaster · Navy Civil War · 1862 JM John B. Mayberry Private · Army Civil War · 1863 BM Bernard McCarren Private · Army Civil War · 1863 WN William Lloyd Nelson Sergeant · Army World War II · 1943 ✦

William Jackson Palmer Colonel · Army Civil War · 1865 CP Charles H. Pierce Private · Army Philippine Insurrection · 1899

James Parke Postles Captain · Army Civil War · 1863 LS Louis Jeanottelle Sacriste First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1863 GS Griffin Seward Wagoner · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 JS John Shilling First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 SS Samuel Rodmond Smith Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 CT Charles B. Tanner Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1862