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Organization: Battery A, 4th US Artillery
Entered Service: unknown
Birth: Germany.
Date Medal Issued: 24 August 1897.
Date of Action: 3 July 1863.
Place of Action: Gettysburg, Pa.
Citation
All the officers of his battery having been killed or wounded and five of its guns disabled in Pickett's assault, he succeeded to the command and fought the remaining gun with most distinguished gallantry until the battery was ordered withdrawn.