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Rank and organization:   Corporal, Company A, 61st Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 2 April 1865.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Westmoreland County, Pa.

Date of issue:   13 February 1891.

Citation:   Voluntarily took the colors, whose bearer had been disabled, and, although himself severely wounded, carried the same until the enemy's works were taken.

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