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Rank and organization: Captain, Company K, 100th Indiana Infantry. Place
and date: At Missionary Ridge, Tenn., 25 November 1863. Entered service
at: Indianapolis, Ind. Birth: ?. Date of issue: 16 May 1899. Citation:
To encourage his men whom he had ordered to lie down while under severe
fire, and who were partially protected by slight earthworks, himself refused
to lie down, but walked along the top of the works until he fell severely
wounded.
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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