Years of service 1861 - 1865 Name Charles McAnally Rank Captain Awards Medal of Honor | Commands held Company D Battles/wars American Civil War Service/branch Union Army | |
Born May 12, 1836
Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland ( 1836-05-12 ) Allegiance United States of America
Union Died 1905, Austin, Texas, United States Unit 69th Pennsylvania Infantry | ||
Battles and wars American Civil War | ||
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.
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Biography
McAnally was born in Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland. He joined the U.S. Army in August 1861, and was mustered out with the rest of his regiment in July 1865.
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".
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 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.
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.