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Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, Company E, 37th Illinois Infantry.
Place and date:   At Fort Blakely, Ala., 9 April 1865.

Entered service at:   Mendota, La Salle County, Ill. Born: 5 October 1840, Boston, Mass. Date of issue: 1 April 1898.

Citation:   While acting regimental quartermaster, learning of an expected assault, requested assignment to a company that had no commissioned officers present; was so assigned, and was one of the first to lead his men into the enemy's works.

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