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Rank and organization. Private, Company C, 97th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date:   At Fort Hell, Petersburg, Va., 29 August 1864. Entered service at: Upper Oxford, Pa.

Birth:   Chester, Pa.

Date of issue:   6 August 1902.

Citation:   Went outside the trenches, under heavy fire at short range, and rescued a comrade who had been wounded and thrown out of the trench by an exploding shell.

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