This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURKE Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RkG.2ACEB/3137 Message Board Post: Source: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along information that may be useful. BURKE, THOMAS Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1833, Ireland. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 77, 1 August 1866. Citation: For heroic conduct, with 2 comrades, in rescuing from drowning James Rose and John Russell, seamen, of the U.S.S. Winooski, off Eastport, Maine, 10 May 1866