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Rank and organization:   Colonel, 13th Maine Infantry.
Place and date:   At Matagorda Bay, Tex., 29-30 December 1863.

Entered service at:   Maine. Born: 10 December 1833, Bangor, Maine.

Date of issue:   2 March 1895.

Citation:   In command of a detachment of 100 men, conducted a reconnaissance for 2 days, baffling and beating back an attacking force of more than a thousand Confederate cavalry, and regained his transport without loss.

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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