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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company A, 3d Maryland Veteran Infantry.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Baltimore, Md.

Date of issue:   27 July 1896.

Citation:   After the color sergeant had been shot down, seized the colors and planted them on the enemy's works during the charge.

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