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Ordnance Corps Medal of Honor Awardees

Civil War

Brig. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard
Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia
1862
Capt. Horace Porter
Battle of Chickamauga
1863
Capt. William Sullivan Beebe
Alexandria, Louisiana
1864
Pvt. Timothy Spillane
Avionics and Survivability Equipment Repairer
1865

Western United States

The following ten noncommissioned officers and enlisted men were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the Western United States. All of them were either serving as Ordnance Sergeants when the Medal of Honor was awarded to them or later retired with that rank. All were members of infantry or cavalry units.

Pvt. Albert Knaak
Arizona Territory
1868
Pvt. Solon D. Neal
Little Washita River, Texas
1870
Cpl. John Kelly
Upper Washita, Texas
1874
1st Sgt. John Mitchell
Upper Washita, Texas
1874
Sgt. Zachariah Woodall
Washita River, Texas
1874
1st Sgt. Michael McGann
Rosebud River, Montana
1876
1st Sgt. Henry Wilkens
Little Muddy Creek, Montana and
Camas Meadows, Idaho
1877
Sgt. Milden H. Wilson
Big Hole, Montana
1877
1st Sgt. Moses Williams
Cuchillo Negro Mountains, New Mexico
1881
1st Sgt. Fredrick E. Toy
Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
1890

World War II

Sgt. Hulon Brocke Whittington
France
1944
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