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Rank and organization:   Captain, Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery.
Place and date:   At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 1833, Ireland.

Date of issue:   15 January 1895.

Citation:   Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works.

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