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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 May 1836 in Glenviggan, Ballinascreen, County Londonderry, Ireland.〔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.〕 He joind the army in August 1861, and was mustered out with the rest of his regiment in July 1865. 〔(Veteran's Card File )〕 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 "()ut in head, shot left shoulder; also through right leg, knee and head".〔"1890 Special Census Schedules -- Texas -- Union Veterans in Travis Co." in the ''Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March, 1977, p. 11.〕 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 second 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles McAnally」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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