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Rank and organization:   First Sergeant, Company E, 2d Maryland Veteran Infantry.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864. Entered service at: Baltimore, Md.

Birth:   England.

Date of issue:   10 July 1892.

Citation:   Finding himself among a squad of Confederates, he fired into them, killing 1, and was himself wounded, but succeeded in bringing in a sergeant and 2 men of the 17th South Carolina Regiment (C.S.A.) as prisoners. (Enlisted in 1861 at Baltimore, Md., under the name Henry Sivel, and original Medal of Honor issued under that name. A new medal was issued in 1900 under true name, William H Mathew.)

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