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Location: ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

City: FORT MYER

State: Virginia

Zip Code: 22211

Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Grave Stones

Access: Cemetery

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: RICHARD E. MILLER


U.S.C.I.-UNITED STATES COLORED INFANTRY

Rank and organization: Sergeant Major, 5th U.S. Colored Troops.
Place and date: At Chaffin’s Farm, Virginia, September 29, 1864.
Entered service at: Athens, Ohio.
Born: 1844, Austin, Texas.
Date of issue: April 6, 1865.

Citation:

Took command of Company C, after all the officers had been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it.


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