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Rank and organization:   Sergeant, Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Washington, D.C.

Date of issue:   4 April 1898.

Citation:   Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.

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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