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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves.
Place and date:   At Gettysburg, Pa., 2 July 1863.

Entered service at:   Cumberland, Md.

Birth:   Germany.

Date of issue:   3 August 1897.

Citation:   Was one of six volunteers who charged upon a log house near the Devil's Den, where a squad of the enemy's sharpshooters were sheltered, and compelled their surrender.

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