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Rank and organization:   Lieutenant, Company D, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date:   At Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864.

Entered service at:   Philadelphia, Pa.

Birth:   Ireland.

Date of issue:   2 August 1897.

Citation:   In a hand_to_hand encounter with the enemy captured a flag, was wounded in the act, but continued on duty until he received a second wound.

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