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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Light Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery.
Place and date:   At White Oak Swamp Bridge, Va.. 30 June 1862. Entered service at: ?.

Birth:   Germany.

Date of issue:   4 April 1898.

Citation:   Was 1 of a party of 3 who, under heavy fire of advancing enemy, voluntarily secured and saved from capture a field gun belonging to another battery, and which had been deserted by its officers and men.

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