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Rank and organization:   Private, Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery.
Place and date:   At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill.

Birth:   Herkimer County, N.Y.

Date of issue:   20 July 1897.

Citation:   Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works.

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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