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Rank and organization: Private, Company A, 12th U.S. Infantry. Place
and date: At Cedar Mountain, Va., 9 August 1862. Entered service at: -----.
Birth: Germany. Date of issue: 1 November 1893. Citation: voluntarily carried
an order, at great risk of life in the face of a fire of grape and canister;
in doing this he was wounded.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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