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Medal of Honor Recipients from Ohio

256 Medals of Honor are credited to Ohio, and 223 recipients were born there; 145 are buried in the state.

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George Croghan Reid Major · Marine Corps Veracruz 1914 · 1914 LR Louis Renninger Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 WR William R. Richardson Private · Army Civil War · 1865 William E. Richey Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 SR Samuel Richman Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 JR James Richmond Private · Army Civil War · 1863 ✦ Edward Vernon Rickenbacker First Lieutenant · Air Force World War I · 1918 JR John Henry Ricksecker Private · Army Civil War · 1864 GR Gordon Ray Roberts Specialist Fourth Class · Army Vietnam War · 1969 Samuel Robertson Private · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ Elbridge Robinson Private · Army Civil War · 1863 James E. Robinson Jr. First Lieutenant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ FR Frederick Rock Private · Army Civil War · 1863 MR Marion A. Ross Sergeant Major · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ Ronald Eugene Rosser Corporal · Army Korean War · 1952 LR Lewis A. Rounds Private · Army Civil War · 1864 JR John F. Rowalt Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 SR Stanislaus Roy Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 BS Benjamin W. Schenck Private · Army Civil War · 1863 AS Andrew Schmauch Private · Army Civil War · 1863 WS William Schmidt Private · Army Civil War · 1863 CS Christian Schnell Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 John Morehead Scott Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ JS John Wallace Scott Captain · Army Civil War · 1865 Robert Raymond Scott Machinist's Mate First Class · Navy World War II · 1941 ✦ ES Elisha B. Seaman Private · Army Civil War · 1863 Cyrus Sears First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1862 Philip G. Shadrach Private · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ WS William Shaffer Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 ES Edward Clay Sharpless Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1874 LS Louis Capet Shepard Ordinary Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1865 BS Bernard Shields Private · Army Civil War · 1865 OS Oscar Slagle Private · Army Civil War · 1863 Samuel Slavens Private · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ JS James (Ovid) Smith Private · Army Civil War · 1862 OS Otis W. Smith Private · Army Civil War · 1864 WS William H. Smith Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 Orizoba Spence Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 John Wilson Sprague Colonel · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦ CS Charles Stacey Private · Army Civil War · 1863 David Sloane Stanley Major General · Army Civil War · 1864 RS Rudolph Stauffer First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1872 JS John Whedon Steele Major & Aide-de-Camp · Army Civil War · 1864 Tony Stein Corporal · Marine Corps World War II · 1945 ✦ JS Joseph Stickels Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 JS Julius Henry Stickoffer Saddler · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 AS Alonzo Stokes First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1870 LS Laddie Stupka Fireman First Class · Navy Interim 1899–1910 · 1903 JS James K. Sturgeon Private · Army Civil War · 1864 TS Thomas Sullivan Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 WS William H. Surles Private · Army Civil War · 1862 Wager Swayne Lieutenant Colonel · Army Civil War · 1862 Brian Miles Thacker First Lieutenant · Army Vietnam War · 1971 Charles Lawrence Thomas Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1865 Herbert Joseph Thomas Sergeant · Marine Corps World War II · 1943 ✦ CT Charles Augustus Thompson Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 FT Freeman C. Thompson Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865 TT Thomas W. Thompson Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 ET Ernest R. Torgler Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 John Roderick Towle Private · Army World War II · 1944 ✦ HT Howell B. Treat Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 GT George William Tyrrell Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 Oscar Jefferson Upham Private · Marine Corps Boxer Rebellion · 1900 WV Wilson J. Vance Private · Army Civil War · 1862 JV Joseph van Matre Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JW John H. Wageman Private · Army Civil War · 1864 AW Allen Walker Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1891 JW James C. Walker Private · Army Civil War · 1863 FW Francis A. Waller Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 James Richard Ward Seaman First Class · Navy World War II · 1941 ✦ NW Nelson W. Ward Private · Army Civil War · 1864 AW Alason P. Webber Musician · Army Civil War · 1864 EW Edward Welsh Private · Army Civil War · 1863 BW Bruno Wende Private · Army Spanish-American War · 1898 JW James Wiley Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 GW George Wilhelm Captain · Army Civil War · 1863 JW Jay P. Williams Coxswain · Navy Boxer Rebellion · 1900 WW William Haliday Williams Private · Army Civil War · 1864 BW Benjamin Wilson Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1870 George D. Wilson Private · Army Civil War · 1862 ✦ John Alfred Wilson Private · Army Civil War · 1862 MW Milden H. Wilson Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 David Francis Winder Private First Class · Army Vietnam War · 1970 ✦ John Wollam Private · Army Civil War · 1862 Mark Wood Private · Army Civil War · 1862 RW Robert B. Wood Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1863 HW Howard E. Woodford Staff Sergeant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ JY Jacob F. Yeager Private · Army Civil War · 1864 Calvary Morris Young Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 Rodger Wilton Young Private · Army World War II · 1943 ✦ John L. Younker Private · Army Civil War · 1862