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Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, 11th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Wilderness, Va., 5 May 1864.

Entered service at:   New York.

Birth:   New York.

Date of issue:   23 July 1897.

Citation:   Under the heavy fire of the advancing enemy, picked up and carried several hundred yards to a place of safety a wounded officer of his regiment who was helpless and would otherwise have been burned in the forest.

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