Charles McAnally

Charles McAnally
Born (1836-05-12)May 12, 1836
Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland
Died 1905 (aged 68–69)
Austin, Texas
Allegiance  United States of America
Union
Service/branch United States Union Army
Years of service 1861 - 1865
Rank Captain
Unit Pennsylvania 69th Pennsylvania Infantry
Commands held Company D
Battles/wars American Civil War
Awards Medal of Honor

Charles McAnally (May 12, 1836 – 1905) was an officer in the Union Army who received the United States military's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the American Civil War.

Biography

McAnally was born in Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland.[1] He joined the U.S. Army in August 1861, and was mustered out with the rest of his regiment in July 1865.[2]

McAnally was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 15, 1872 for heroic action as a first lieutenant in the American Civil War with the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry of the Union Army in which he was "[c]ut in head, shot left shoulder; also through right leg, knee and head".[3]

After the war, he married on August 24, 1871 in Burleson County, Texas to widow Frances 'Fanny' Veach, and purchased farmland in Lee County, Texas. He married a second time on December 18, 1882 in Travis County, Texas to widow Julia Hofheintz[3] and lived for some time in the city of Austin, Texas. He had one known child, a daughter, born in February 1880 in Texas.

In 1900, he was enumerated in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Elizabeth City, Virginia, which annotates that he had immigrated to the United States in 1852. He reportedly died in 1905 in Austin, Texas.[4]

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Lieutenant, Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 2 August 1897.

Citation:

In a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy captured a flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Michael Higgins: Captain Charles McAnally Co. D. 69th. Pa. Vols. Congressional Medal of Honour Recipient. Sgt. Peter McAnally Co. D. 69th. Pa. Vols. (The men from Glenviggen townland Cookstown Co. Tyrone.), http://www.69thpa.co.uk/page11.html, 25.8.2008.
  2. ↑ Veteran's Card File
  3. 1 2 "1890 Special Census Schedules -- Texas -- Union Veterans in Travis Co." in the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March, 1977, p. 11.
  4. ↑ "Charles McAnally". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Retrieved January 13, 2010.

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