Medal of Honor
April 26, 1900
La Paz, Leyte, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company I, 23d U.S. Infantry
- Presentation date
- March 10, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Advanced alone under heavy fire of the enemy and rescued a wounded comrade.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- George Mathews Shelton — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-28
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-001357
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major
- Entered service at
- Bellington, Tex.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- af74fcf5bbb85a9862bb0ebee4e3307c0705bac7f59b2f8048d49c9e346fb537
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile expands the name and corrects the inherited Company 1 transcription to Company I. The original unit rendering remains in legacy fields.