Thomas Toohey

He helped serve the guns in hell's fierce fire at Franklin!!

Thomas Toohey was born in New York City on 1 January 1835 and served in the Union Army with Company F, 24th Wisconsin Infantry. A sergeant at the time of his Medal of Honor action, he later held the rank of first sergeant.

At Franklin, Tennessee, on 30 November 1864, the fighting became especially severe around a battery near the right of Toohey's regiment. As the gun crews were depleted and men left the position, Toohey voluntarily helped work the artillery where enemy fire was heaviest. More than half a century later, on 12 March 1917, he received the Medal of Honor for that conduct.

Medal of Honor Citation (condensed): At Franklin, Toohey voluntarily helped serve artillery after nearly all of the battery's men had left, remaining at a point where the enemy's fire was exceptionally intense.

Toohey died on 19 November 1918 and was buried at Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, Missouri. The reviewed sources support his Civil War Army service and the Medal of Honor, but do not support the Indian Campaign Medal that had appeared in the existing rack.