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Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 52d Ohio Infantry. Place
and date: At Atlanta. Ga., 6 August 1864. Entered service at: ?. Birth:
Jefferson County, Ohio. Date of issue: 5 April 1894. Citation: Saved the
lives of some of his comrades, and greatly imperiled his own by picking
up and throwing away a lighted shell which had fallen in the midst of the
company.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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