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Rank and organization:   Private, Company A, 28th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Shiloh, Tenn., 6 April 1862.

Entered service at:   Havanna, Ill.

Birth:   Philadelphia, Pa.

Date of issue:   28 September 1897.

Citation:   A box of ammunition having been abandoned between the lines, this soldier voluntarily went forward with one companion, under a heavy fire from both armies, secured the box, and delivered it within the line of his regiment, his companion being mortally wounded.

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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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