Medal of Honor
October 17, 1899
near Porac, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- U.S. Volunteers, 36th Infantry
- Presentation date
- March 8, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Led a successful charge against a superior force, capturing and dispersing the enemy and relieving other members of his regiment from a perilous position.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Harry Bell — 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-000465
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Minneapolis, Minn.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 5b2dff8708017254937f4dbdd0dedc1efa04e6e9a1184576509bfe9f03f790a0
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile supplies the U.S. Volunteers component and replaces the modern Pampanga result with the historical near-Porac wording.