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Rank and organization:   Private, Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry.
Place and date:   At Malvern Hill, Va., 1 July 1862.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Scituate, Mass.

Date of issue:   1 April 1898.

Citation:   Although wounded and carried to the rear, he secured a rifle and voluntarily returned to the front, where, failing to find his own regiment, he joined another and fought with it until again severely wounded and taken prisoner.

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