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Organization: Company D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves
Entered Service: Cumberland, Md.
Birth: Germany.
Date Medal Issued: 3 August 1897.
Date of Action: 2 July 1863.
Place of Action: Gettysburg, Pa.
Citation
Was one of six volunteers who charged upon a log house near the Devil's Den, where a squad of the enemy's sharpshooters were sheltered, and compelled their surrender.