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Rank and organization:   Corporal, Company G, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry.
Place and date:   At Fort Fisher, Va., 25 March 1865.

Entered service at:   Skowhegan, Maine.

Birth:   Skowhegan, Maine.

Date of issue:   22 June 1885.

Citation:   The color sergeant having been wounded, this soldier picked up the flag and bore it to the front, to the great encouragement of the charging column.

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