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Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, Company C, 13th Illinois Infantry.
Place and date:   At Missionary Ridge, Tenn., 25 November 1863. Entered service at: Amboy, Ill. Born: 14 January 1842, Buffalo, N.Y.

Date of issue:   4 April 1898.

Citation:   While commanding his company, deployed as skirmishers, came upon a large body of the enemy, taking a number of them prisoner. Lt. Josselyn himself shot their color bearer, seized the colors and brought them back to his regiment.

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