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John Lafferty or Laverty (1842 – November 13, 1903) was a sailor in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War and is one of only 19 people in history to receive the Medal of Honor twice. ==Biography== According to his first Medal of Honor citation John Lafferty was born in June 1842 in New York City. According to the second, John Laverty was born in 1845 in County Tyrone, Ireland.〔(Owens, Ronald J. ''Medal of Honor: Historical Facts & Figures'', Turner Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 9781563119958 )〕 He is also recorded as having been born in Dublin, Ireland in 1849.〔("Irish Recipients of the Medal of Honor", South Tipperary Military History Society )〕 His first award was due to his service aboard the . He participated in a plan to destroy the rebel ram in the Roanoke River, May 25, 1864. He was one of five ''Wyalusing'' crew members to be awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery during the Civil War (the others being Coal Heaver Charles Baldwin, Fireman Alexander Crawford, Coal Heaver Benjamin Lloyd, and Coxswain John W. Lloyd). He earned his second award while serving on board the , a wooden hulled sloop built in 1868, at Callao Bay, Peru, September 14, 1881. During his Civil War service he enlisted as John Lafferty, and his first Medal is recorded under this name. However, when he re-enlisted in the Navy, he used John Laverty, which appears to be his real name〔〔("Laverty" Medal of Honor Historical Society of the United States )〕 and is used on his government-issue headstone. Laverty died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 13, 1903 and buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his grave can be found in the Naval Asylum Plot. 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「John Lafferty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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