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Rank and organization:   Corporal, Company A, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date:   At Salem Heights, Va., 3 May 1863.

Entered service at:   Philadelphia, Pa.

Birth:   Ireland.

Date of issue:   1 April 1898.

Citation:   Went 250 yards in front of his regiment toward the position of the enemy and under fire brought within the lines a wounded and unconscious comrade.

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