Rank: First Lieutenant
Organization: 5th US Artillery, Battery D
Entered Service: Rockland, ME
Birth: East Thomaston, ME
Date Medal Issued: 22 June 1894
Date of Action: 21 July 1861
Place of Action: Bull Run, VA
Citation: Remained upon the field in command of a section of Griffin’s Battery, directing its fire after being severely wounded and refusing to leave the field until too weak to sit upon the caisson where he had been placed by men of his command.
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