Henry Hogan
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Hogan was originally from [[County Clare]], [[Ireland]]. He received his first citation for gallantry in action against [[Sitting Bull]]'s [[Lakota people|Lakota]] warriors at the 1876 [[Battle of Cedar Creek (1876)|Battle of Cedar Creek]], and the second one for a dramatic rescue of his lieutenant in the 1877 fight at Bear Paw Mountain. Hogan carried him off the field in the midst of heavy fire from the Indian warriors. He was a member of Company G of the 5th Infantry]] Regiment under Col. [[Nelson A. Miles]]. | Hogan was originally from [[County Clare]], [[Ireland]]. He received his first citation for gallantry in action against [[Sitting Bull]]'s [[Lakota people|Lakota]] warriors at the 1876 [[Battle of Cedar Creek (1876)|Battle of Cedar Creek]], and the second one for a dramatic rescue of his lieutenant in the 1877 fight at Bear Paw Mountain. Hogan carried him off the field in the midst of heavy fire from the Indian warriors. He was a member of Company G of the 5th Infantry]] Regiment under Col. [[Nelson A. Miles]]. | ||
| − | Hogan is buried in the Custer County Cemetery in [[Miles City, Montana]]. | + | Hogan is buried in the [[Custer County Cemetery]] in [[Miles City, Montana]]. In the fall of 2009, Eastern Montana Veterans Cemetery staff asked Ed Saunders, a retired Army officer living in Montana who specializes in researching and preparing cases for medals for military veterans, to investigate the grave sites of Private Pym and Hogan to see if both their weathered and barely legible Medal of Honor headstones could be replaced. Neither Pym nor Hogan had any known relatives to petition the government to replace them, so Saunders prepared cases for both men and wrote to the U.S. Veterans' Administration himself. After seven months, officials granted Saunders' request and the new headstones arrived in time for Memorial Day, 2010. Saunders and Kurt Holmlund, superintendent of Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, both replaced the newer headstones with assistance from the local community. |
==Medal of Honor citation== | ==Medal of Honor citation== | ||
