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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.
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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