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Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles H Pierce

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000522Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

October 19, 1899

San Isidro, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company I, 22d U.S. Infantry
Presentation date
March 10, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
Held a bridge against a superior force of the enemy and fought, though severely wounded, until the main body came up to cross.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Charles H Pierce — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000528
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
First Sergeant
Entered service at
Delaware City, Del.
Archive transcription SHA-256
a170f5dc11fc13bf9878e9e6616358b353e59cac44d1212a789761ec88976a46

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current official profile confirms identity and action date and records canonical name Charles H Pierce; unit Company I, 22d U.S. Infantry; conflict Philippine Insurrection; historical action place San Isidro, Luzon, Philippine Islands; later/highest rank First Sergeant. The current profile corrects the inherited company-letter transcription from numeral 1 to Company I.