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Rank and organization:   Corporal, Company L, 1st New Jersey Cavalry.
Place and date:   At Chamberlains Creek, Va., 31 March 1865. Entered service at:?.

Birth:   Willimantic, Conn.

Date of issue:   3 July 1865.

Citation:   With the assistance of a comrade, headed off the advance of the enemy, shooting two of his color bearers; also posted himself between the enemy and the led horses of his own command, thus saving the herd from capture.

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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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