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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company F, 158th New York Infantry.
Place and date:   At Chapins Farm, Va., 29 September 1864. Entered service at: New York, N.Y.

Birth:   Hempstead, N.Y.

Date of issue:   6 April 1865.

Citation:   Was among the first to scale the parapet.

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