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Rank and organization:   Private, Company E, 4th Rhode Island Infantry.
Place and date:   At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864.

Entered service at:   Slatersville, R.I.

Birth:   Ireland.

Date of issue:   3 June 1905.

Citation:   Bore off the regimental colors after the color sergeant had been wounded and the color corporal bearing the colors killed thereby saving the colors from capture.

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