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Rank and organization:   Private, Company H, 101st Ohio Infantry. Place and date: At Buzzard's Roost, Ga., 11 May 1864.

Entered service at:   Tiffin, Ohio.

Birth:   Lehigh County, Pa.

Date of issue:   3 August 1897.

Citation:   Seized a shell with fuze burning that had fallen in the ranks of his company and threw it into a stream, thereby probably saving his comrades from injury.

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