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Rank and organization:   First Lieutenant, Company K, 93d New York Infantry.
Place and date:   At Corbins Bridge, Va., 8 May 1864.

Entered service at:   Argyle, N.Y.

Birth:   Argyle, N.Y.

Date of issue:   2 August 1897.

Citation:   While acting as aide_de_camp to a general officer, seeing a regiment break to the rear, he seized its colors, rode with them to the front in the face of the advancing enemy, and rallied the retreating regiment.

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