Thomas Kelly - Plattsburgh, New York
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N 44° 40.754 W 073° 26.716
18T E 623218 N 4948493
Thomas Kelly memorial plaque is located in Plattsburgh, New York.
Waymark Code: WMM7C2
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/04/2014
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The old post cemetery is the final resting place for 445 persons, including 163 soldiers and airmen as well as 136 unknown soldiers and sailors. These include an unknown soldier from the Revolution, soldiers and sailors from the War of 1812, a Medal of Honor winner from the War with Spain and a Vietnam War MIA. Resting alongside these military men are 106 of their wives and children.
"In the southwest corner, separated from the other memorials by a chained enclosure, are two limestone markers. A small plaque on the fence states that Tom Kelly, born in Ireland, won the Congressional Medal of Honor when he “gallantly assisted in the rescue of wounded from in front of the lines and while under heavy fire from the enemy.” Tom was in reality, just one of six men of the 21st Infantry’s H Company who won the Medal of Honor for their action on that first day of July in 1898 at San Juan Hill when they rushed time and time again out into the hail of Spanish fire to rescue the wounded trapped on the open slopes. Private Kelly would survive the war in Cuba and serve another 22 years before retiring at Plattsburgh as the Post’s Quartermaster Sergeant."
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