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Rank and organization:   Private, Company E, 5th lowa Cavalry. Place and date: At Newnan, Ga., 29 July 1864.

Entered service at:   Dubuque, lowa.

Birth:   Dubuque, lowa.

Date of issue:   13 January 1899.

Citation:   When nearly surrounded by the enemy, captured a Confederate soldier, and with the aid of a comrade who joined him later, captured 4 other Confederate soldiers, disarmed the 5 prisoners, and brought them all into the Union lines.

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• Interment.net ~ Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

• Ancestry.com ~ A huge compilation of databases some of which are free and some of which require a paid subscription.

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