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Rank and organization:   Lieutenant Colonel, 170th New York Infantry.
Place and date:   At North Anna River, Va., 24 May 1864. Entered service at: New York, N.Y.

Birth:   Ireland.

Date of issue:   15 January 1897.

Citation:   This officer, commanding the regiment, kept it on the field exposed to the fire of the enemy for 3 hours without being able to fire one shot in return because of the ammunition being exhausted.

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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