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Rank and organization:   Second Lieutenant, Company B, 11th Illinois Infantry.
Place and date:   At Vicksburg Miss., 22 April 1863.

Entered service at:   Lacon, Marshall County, Ill.

Birth:   Lacon, Ill.

Date of issue:   1 April 1898.

Citation:   Served gallantly as a volunteer with the crew of the steamer Horizon that, under a heavy fire, passed the Confederate batteries.

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