Medal of Honor
September 9, 1899
near Porac, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- U.S. Volunteers, 36th Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓While in advance of his regiment charged 7 insurgents with his pistol and compelled the surrender of the captain and 2 privates under a close fire from the remaining insurgents concealed in a bamboo thicket.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James Franklin 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-000466
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major General
- Entered service at
- Shelbyville, Ky.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 272621ab1ada95f07883fec93bec90dc2cf8e173db47028a95506d2440cabf13
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Colonel is retained as the action rank and Major General as the highest/later rank. The canonical James F. Bell profile was resolved through archival reference search outside the inherited top-five candidates.