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Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, Company A, 9th Vermont Infantry.
Place and date:   At Newport Barracks, N.C., 2 February 1864. Entered service at: St. Albans, Vt.

Birth:   St. Albans, Vt.

Date of issue:   8 September 1891.

Citation:   By long and persistent resistance and burning the bridges kept a superior force of the enemy at a distance and thus covered the retreat of the garrison.

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