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Rank and organization:   Private, Company B, 116th Illinois Infantry.
Place and date:   At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863.

Entered service at:   Decatur, Macon County, Ill.

Birth:   Macon County, Ill.

Date of issue:   11 August 1894.

Citation:   Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."

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