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Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry.
Place and date: At Gravelly Run, Va., 31 March and 1 April 1865. Entered
service at: West Point Township, Columbia County, Wis. Birth: Canada. Date
of issue: Unknown. Citation: On 31 March 1865, with a comrade, recaptured
a Union officer from a detachment of 9 Confederates, capturing 3 of the
detachment and dispersing the remainder, and on 1 April 1865, seized a
stand of Confederate colors, killing a Confederate officer in a hand_to_hand
contest over the colors and retaining the colors until surrounded by Confederates
and compelled to relinquish them.
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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