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Home Town Logan County, Ohio
Last Address Toledo, Ohio Buried at New Belleville Ridge Cemetery, Dowling, Ohio.
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Private with Company F, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at Big Shanty, Georgia. His official CMOH citation reads as follows "One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta".