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Rank and organization:   Sergeant Major, 2d Ohio Infantry.
Place and date:   Georgia, April 1862.

Entered service at:   ?.

Birth:   Champaign County, Ohio.

Date of issue:   September 1863.

Citation:   Nineteen of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into the enemy's territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta.

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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