Why Patrick H. Doody is on this page

Heritage: Doody was born in Ireland on 7 July 1840 and emigrated to the United States in time to enlist in the 164th New York Infantry in August 1862. The Medal of Honor citation and the standard *List of Irish-American Medal of Honor recipients* place him squarely in the documented mid-nineteenth-century Doody emigration cohort. Heritage classification: Irish-born; American Civil War service; buried at Calvary Cemetery, New York.

Patrick H. Doody (7 July 1840 – 1924) was an Irish-born American Civil War soldier who received the Medal of Honor for action at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Born in Ireland and emigrating to the United States, Doody enlisted in Company K of the 164th New York Infantry in August 1862 and served with the regiment through to its mustering out in July 1865. On 7 June 1864, during the Cold Harbor campaign in Virginia, Doody made a successful personal reconnaissance of the enemy line and then led the regimental skirmishers in a night attack, charging the Confederate position so that pioneer troops could throw up earthworks under cover of the assault — the action for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor on 13 December 1893. After the war he returned to civilian life in New York; he died in 1924 and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Queens. His name appears on the Wikipedia *List of Irish-American Medal of Honor recipients* and in the *Civil War Medal of Honor recipients (A–F)* list.

Heritage notes

Family root: Ireland — irish-born-confirmed.

The directory threads Patrick H. Doody back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.