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Private Nicholas Minue – Medal of Honor Recipient
Not every soldier, sailor and Marine who received the Congressional Medal of Honor has been remembered by having a ship, building, institution or even...
Eldin H. Johnson Medal of Honor Recipient
Elden H. Johnson was born in the small community of Bivalve, a section of what was known as Commercial Township in Cumberland County on...
Samuel Streit Coursen … Hero
Samuel Streit Coursen
It was just five years after his graduation from the West Point Military Academy that First Lieutenant Samuel Streit Coursen was killed...
Staff Sergeant Connor
Staff Sergeant Connor served first in the US Marine Corps in 1952 after enlisting in South Orange and undergoing recruit training at Parris Island,...
William Porter – First New Jersey Calvary
Although there are not many records of the heroic actions of the men in the First New Jersey Calvary during the Civil War, the...