Photograph associated with Patrick Monaghan

Civil War

Patrick Monaghan

Corporal · U.S. Army

Company F, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

17 June 1864 · Petersburg, Virginia

Public domain. Rodenbough, Theophilus Francis. “Uncle Sam’s Medal of Honor: Some of the Noble Deeds for Which the Medal Has Been Awarded, Described by Those Who Have Won It 1861–1886”: “Three Thinking Bayonets”, pp. 113-117. New York, New York and London, England: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1886. URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002559970;view=1up;seq=133 Source file

Branch
U.S. Army
Era
Civil War
Home state
Pennsylvania
Action
Petersburg, Virginia

The citation

Official citation

Recapture of colors of 7th New York Heavy Artillery.

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