| Daniel G. George | |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1840 |
| Birth Place: | Plaistow, New Hampshire |
| Death Place: | Amesbury, Massachusetts |
| Placeofburial: | Locust Grove Cemetery Merrimac, Massachusetts |
| Allegiance: | United States |
| Branch: | United States Navy |
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Daniel Griffin George (July 7, 1840 – February 26, 1916) alias William Smith was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
George was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, on July 7, 1840. He first served during the Civil War in Company D, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry; enlisting September 16, 1861, for three years; mustered on September 17, 1861, as a Private; appointed 1st Sergeant February 8, 1863; re-enlisted January 1, 1864. George transferred to the Union Navy on May 7, 1864, as an Ordinary Seaman, under the alias name of William Smith; served on the and ; volunteered from the Chicopee as one of the crew of U.S. Picket Boat No. 1 with Lieutenant William B. Cushing in the destruction of Rebel Ram CSS Albemarle near Plymouth, North Carolina; hurled into the Roanoke River by the explosion of the spar torpedo that sank the Albemarle and captured October 27, 1864; prisoner at the Confederate military prison in Salisbury, North Carolina until the close of war. He was discharged April 26, 1866, as a Coxswain from the Chicopee.[1]
Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy. (alias William Smith.), Accredited to: New Hampshire, G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
George's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Medal of Honor recipient Daniel G. George died at Amesbury, Massachusetts on February 26, 1916, of a cerebral hemorrhage and was buried at the Locust Grove Cemetery in Merrimac, Massachusetts.