Bernard J. D. Irwin
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Bernard J. D. Irwin
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Bernard John Dowling Irwin was an assistant army surgeon during the Apache Wars and the first Medal of Honor recipient. His actions on February 13, 1861, are the earliest for which the Medal of Honor was awarded. Irwin had an interest in natural history and while at Fort Buchanan, Arizona, in 1858–1860 he collected reptile specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. In 1857 Irwin donated a meteorite to the Smithsonian Institution that came to be known as the Irwin-Ainsa (Tucson) meteorite. A coll
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United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1830–1917)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_J._D._Irwin
date created:
2008-02-13T19:05:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:08:22Z
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