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Medal of Honor Recipients from New York

678 Medals of Honor are credited to New York, and 476 recipients were born there; 374 are buried in the state.

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GM George McKee Color Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 AM Alexander McKenzie Boatswain's Mate · Navy Korea 1871 · 1871 WM William McKnight Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1862 George G. McMurtry Captain · Army World War I · 1918 JM James McNally First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 MM Michael Joseph McNally Sergeant · Marine Corps Samoa 1899 · 1899 ✦ MM Michael McNamara Private · Marine Corps Korea 1871 · 1871 RM Robert McPhelan Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 CM Charles H. McVeagh Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 JM John P. McVeane Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 ✦ GM George E. Meach Farrier · Army Civil War · 1864 TM Thomas Meagher First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 JM John William Menter Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JM Joseph Frederick Merrell Private · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ GM George Merrill Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JM John Mitchell Merrill Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1879 JM John G. Merritt Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1861 HM Henry Coddington Meyer Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 FM Frank Miller Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JM John Miller Private · Army Civil War · 1865 DM Daniel Milliken Quarter Gunner · Navy Civil War · 1865 JM John Millmore Ordinary Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1877 Albert Leopold Mills Captain & Assistant Adjutant General · Army Spanish-American War · 1898 CM Charles Mills Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1865 FM Frank W. Mills Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 TM Thomas Mitchell Landsman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1879 John Henry Moffitt Corporal · Army Civil War · 1862 CM Charles H. Montrose Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 CM Charles Moore Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1863 FM Francis Moore Boatswain's Mate · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1882 GM George Moquin Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1879 JM James H. Morgan Captain of the Top · Navy Civil War · 1864 WM William Henry Morin Boatswain's Mate Second Class · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 JM John Morris Corporal · Marine Corps Interim 1871–1899 · 1881 JM John G. Morrison Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1862 BM Benjamin Morse Private · Army Civil War · 1864 Charles E. Morse Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 WM William Morse Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1880 JM Joseph E. Muller Sergeant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ Harvey May Munsell Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 CM Charles Joseph Murphy First Lieutenant & Quartermaster · Army Civil War · 1861 EM Edward Murphy Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 JM John Alphonsus Murphy Drummer · Marine Corps Boxer Rebellion · 1900 JM John Edward Murphy Coxswain · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 MM Michael C. Murphy Lieutenant Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 Michael P. Murphy Lieutenant · Navy Afghanistan · 2005 ✦ Patrick Murphy Boatswain's Mate · Navy Civil War · 1864 TM Thomas J. Murphy First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 TM Thomas Murphy Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 RM Robert Charles Murray Staff Sergeant · Army Vietnam War · 1970 ✦ TM Thomas Murray Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 WM William Henry Murray Private · Marine Corps Boxer Rebellion · 1900 DN David Johnson Naylor Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1864 ZN Zachariah C. Neahr Private · Army Civil War · 1865 WN William Henry Newman Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 JN John H. Nibbe Quartermaster · Navy Civil War · 1864 WN William Nichols Quartermaster · Navy Civil War · 1864 Alfred B. Nietzel Sergeant · Army World War II · 1944 ✦ John Nihill Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1872 Robert Niven Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 Joseph B. Noil Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1872 Thomas Patrick Noonan Jr. Lance Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1969 ✦ CN Charles Luers Nordsiek Ordinary Seaman · Navy Veracruz 1914 · 1914 IN Isador A. Nordstrom Chief Boatswain · Navy Interim 1899–1910 · 1906 JN J. W. Norris Landsman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1883 JN John R. Norton Second Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 LN Llewellyn Powell Norton Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 LN Lee Nutting Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 JO James Rowan O'Beirne Captain · Army Civil War · 1862 PO Peter O'Brien Private · Army Civil War · 1865 William Joseph O'Brien Lieutenant Colonel · Army World War II · 1944 ✦ JO John O'Callaghan Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 TO Thomas O'Connell Coal Heaver · Navy Civil War · 1864 TO Timothy O'Donoghue Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 Robert Emmett O'Malley Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1965 Richard William O'Neill Sergeant · Army World War I · 1918 SO Stephen O'Neill Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 WO William O'Neill Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1872 TO Thomas E. O'Shea Corporal · Army World War I · 1918 ✦ JO John Francis O'Sullivan Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1874 WO William Oakley Gunner's Mate Second Class · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 AO August Ohmsen Master-at-Arms · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1884 PO Paul Ambrose Oliver Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 MO Michael Harold Ollis Staff Sergeant · Army Afghanistan · 2013 ✦ CO Charles Alvin Orr Private · Army Civil War · 1864 CO Christian Osepins Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1882 Miles M. Oviatt Corporal · Marine Corps Civil War · 1864 MO Michael Owens Private · Marine Corps Korea 1871 · 1871 LP Loron F. Packard Private · Army Civil War · 1863 George Henry Palmer Musician · Army Civil War · 1861 GP George Parks Captain of the Forecastle · Navy Civil War · 1864 Henry Jeremiah Parks Private · Army Civil War · 1864 William Russell Parnell First Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 John Henry Patterson First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864 BP Byron E. Pay Private · Army Civil War · 1863 IP Irvin C. Payne Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 Joachim Pease Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 AP Archie A. Peck Private · Army World War I · 1918 WP William Pelham Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1864 EP Edward Pengally Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 William Thomas Perkins Jr. Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1967 ✦ TP Thomas Perry Boatswain's Mate · Navy Civil War · 1864 Lawrence David Peters Sergeant · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1967 ✦ AP Alfred Peterson Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1862 GP George Peterson Staff Sergeant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ HP Herman Pfisterer Musician · Army Spanish-American War · 1898 JP Josiah Phillips Private · Army Civil War · 1865 WP William Phinney Boatswain's Mate · Navy Civil War · 1864 HP Henry E. Plant Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 FP Frederick Platten Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1875 WP William Plimley First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1865 James Burton Pond First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1863 WP William Porter Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 Philip Sidney Post Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 NP Norman F. Potter First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 John James Powers Lieutenant · Navy World War II · 1942 ✦ TP Thomas Powers Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 NP Noble Delance Preston First Lieutenant & Commissary · Army Civil War · 1864 EP Edward Price Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1864 Ralph Puckett Jr. First Lieutenant · Army Korean War · 1950