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

Entered service at:   Waverly, N.Y.

Birth:   Newfield, N.Y.

Date of issue:   8 August 1900.

Citation:   With five other volunteers gallantly charged on a number of the enemy's sharpshooters concealed in a log house, captured them, and brought them into the Union lines.

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