Explore Carroll: DAYHOFF: More Medal of Honor recipients have Carroll County connections

Explore Carroll: DAYHOFF: More Medal of Honor recipients have Carroll County connections

by Kevin Dayhoff

After last week's column about 1st Lt. John Buffington, of Taneytown, was published ("Recalling Carroll's only recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor"), I was told of research suggesting there are more Medal of Honor winners who have connections to our county.


Shortly after the column appeared, I heard from readers from all over the world -- from here in Carroll County to Australia to South Carolina.

As much as I appreciated everyone's feedback and questions, perhaps the most valuable came from Laura Jowdy, an archivist from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society (www.cmohs.org.)

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Update Eagle Archive column: “Recalling Carroll’s only recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor”

April 5, 2011 Update on last week’s Eagle Archive column, in the Carroll Eagle: “Recalling Carroll’s only recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor” – April 3, 2011 http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/04/update-eagle-archive-column-recalling.html

Further research after last week’s Eagle Archive column, “Recalling Carroll’s only recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor” was published, indicates that at there may be at least four Medal of Honor winners who have connections with Carroll County.  See this week's Eagle Archive for more details."

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http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5310/recalling-carrolls-only-recipient-congressional-medal-honor/

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SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011

Explore Carroll: DAYHOFF: Recalling Carroll's only recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor

The April 3, 1908, edition of the now-defunct Westminster newspaper, the American Sentinel, carried the story of Sgt. John Ezra Buffington, who is the only Carroll County residents to have ever received the Congressional Medal of Honor...

Buffington served in Company C, 6th Maryland Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division (Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour), Sixth Corps, commanded by General J. Warren Keifer....  http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5310/recalling-carrolls-only-recipient-congressional-medal-honor/

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