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Rank and organization:   First Sergeant, Company H, 14th Michigan Infantry.
Place and date:   At Jonesboro, Ga., 1 September 1864.

Entered service at:   Ann Arbor, Mich. Born: 1839, Ireland.

Date of issue:   28 April 1896.

Citation:   In a charge by the 14th Michigan Infantry against the entrenched enemy was the first man over the line of works of the enemy, and demanded and received the surrender of Confederate Gen. Daviel Govan and his command.

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