For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

This officer led the leading squadron with consummate skill and dash over unknown and difficult country.

At dusk, he took up a position astride the enemy’s line of retreat and succeeded in cutting off and capturing the main portion of the enemy’s force, which desperately attempted to break through during the night.

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