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Rank and organization:   Musician, Company C, 55th Illinois Infantry.
Place and date:   At Vicksburg, Miss., 19 May 1863.

Entered service at:   Woken, Ill.

Birth:   Portage County, Ohio.

Date of issue:   2 3 April 1896.

Citation:   A drummer boy, 14 years of age, and severely wounded and exposed to a heavy fire from the enemy, he persistently remained upon the field of battle until he had reported to Gen. W. T. Sherman the necessity of supplying cartridges for the use of troops under command of Colonel Malmborg.

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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