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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company B, 11th Michigan Infantry.
Place and date:   At Chickamauga, Ga., 20 September 1863. Entered service at: Quincy, Mich. Born. 13 December 1840, Allen, Mich.

Date of issue:   21 October 1895.

Citation:   As the enemy were about to charge, this officer went outside the temporary Union works among the dead and wounded enemy and at great exposure to himself cut off and removed their cartridge boxes, bringing the same within the Union lines, the ammunition being used with good effect in again repulsing the attack.

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• 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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