Voluntarily led a party into a ravine to dislodge Sioux Indians concealed therein. He was wounded during this action.
With 4 men of his troop drove off a superior force of the enemy and held his position against their repeated efforts to recapture it,
While executing an order to withdraw, seeing that a continuance of the movement would expose another troop of his regiment to being cut off and
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