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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 2 April 1865.

Entered service at:   Providence, R.I.

Birth:   Ireland.

Date of issue:   16 June 1866.

Citation:   Was one of a detachment of 20 picket artillerymen who voluntarily accompanied an infantry assaulting party and who turned upon the enemy the guns captured in the assault.

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• Interment.net ~ Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

• Ancestry.com ~ A huge compilation of databases some of which are free and some of which require a paid subscription.

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