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Rank and organization:   Private, Company H, 13th Ohio Cavalry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864.

Entered service at:   Fairmount, Mo.

Birth:   Champaign County, Ohio. Date of issue. 27 January 1865.

Citation:   When about entering upon the charge, this soldier, then but 15 years old, was cautioned not to go in, as he had not been mustered. He indignantly protected and participated in the charge, his left arm being crushed by a shell and amputated soon afterward.

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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