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Rank and organization:   Corporal, Company B, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date:   At Spotsylvania, Va., 18 May 1864.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Lancaster County, Pa.

Date of issue:   2 March 1897.

Citation:   Seized the colors, the color bearer having been shot, and with great gallantry succeeded in saving them from capture.

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