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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company D, 17th Michigan Infantry.
Place and date:   At Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864.

Entered service at:   Kalamazoo, Mich. Born: 1843, Perrysburg, Ohio.

Date of issue:   27 July 1896.

Citation:   After the regiment was surrounded and all resistance seemed useless, fought single-handed for the colors and refused to give them up until he had appealed to his superior officers.

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