View source for Henry Hogan

'''Henry Hogan''' (March 8, 1840 &ndash; April 20, 1916) was a First Sergeant in the United States Army during the [[Black Hills War]].  He is noted as one of only nineteen individuals to receive the [[Medal of Honor]] twice and one of three men in United States history (along with John Coleman and Mike Thronton) to be awarded the CMOH for saving the life of another CMOH recipient.

==Biography==
Hogan was originally from [[County Clare]], [[Ireland]]. He received his first citation for gallantry in action against [[Sitting Bull]]'s [[Lakota people|Lakota]] warriors at the 1876 [[Battle of Cedar Creek (1876)|Battle of Cedar Creek]], and the second one for a dramatic rescue of his lieutenant in the 1877 fight at Bear Paw Mountain. Hogan carried him off the field in the midst of heavy fire from the Indian warriors. He was a member of Company G of the [[5th Infantry]] Regiment under Col. [[Nelson A. Miles]].

Hogan is buried in the [[Custer County Cemetery]] in [[Miles City, Montana]]. In the fall of 2009, Eastern Montana Veterans Cemetery staff asked Ed Saunders, a retired Army officer living in Montana who specializes in researching and preparing cases for medals for military veterans, to investigate the grave sites of Private Pym and Hogan to see if both their weathered and barely legible Medal of Honor headstones could be replaced. Neither Pym nor Hogan had any known relatives to petition the government to replace them, so Saunders prepared cases for both men and wrote to the U.S. Veterans' Administration himself. After seven months, officials granted Saunders' request and the new headstones arrived in time for Memorial Day, 2010. Saunders and Kurt Holmlund, superintendent of Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, both replaced the newer headstones with assistance from the local community.

==Medal of Honor citation==
'''FIRST AWARD'''<br/>
Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company G, 5th U.S. Infantry.<br/>
Place and date: At Cedar Creek, etc., Mont., October 1876 to January 8, 1877. <br/>
Entered service at:------. <br/>
Birth: Ireland. <br/>
Date of issue: June 26, 1894. 

'''Citation:'''

<blockquote>Gallantry in actions.</blockquote>

'''SECOND AWARD'''<br/>
Place and date: At Bear Paw Mountain, Mont., September 30, 1877.

'''Citation:'''

<blockquote>Carried Lt. Romeyn, who was severely wounded, off the field of battle under heavy fire.</blockquote>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|United States Army}}
*[[List of Medal of Honor recipients]]
*[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars#H|List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars]]

==References==
*{{Find a Grave|7987326|work=Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients|accessdate=2008-01-05}}
*{{Cite web |accessdate=September 29, 2010 |url=http://www.cmohs.org/medal/history_links/h_hogan.htm |title=cmohs.org: Hogan, Henry}}


[[Category:1840 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:Irish soldiers in the United States Army]]
[[Category:People from County Clare]]
[[Category:Two-time Medal of Honor recipients]]
[[Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients]]
[[Category:People of the Great Sioux War of 1876]]
[[Category:Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients]]
[[Category:American Indian Wars recipients of the Medal of Honor]]