Thomas Toohey

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Gallantry in action; voluntarily assisting in working guns of battery near right of the regiment after nearly every man had left them, the fire of the enemy being hotter at this than at any other point on the line.

Rank: Sergeant
Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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