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Rank and organization:   Private, Company K, 124th New York Infantry.
Place and date:   At Bristoe Station, Va., 15 June 1863. Entered service at: Middletown, N.Y.

Birth:   Orange County, N.Y.

Date of issue:   10 September 1897.

Citation:   At imminent peril saved from death or capture a disabled officer of his company by carrying him under a hot musketry fire, to a place of safety.

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