Medal of Honor
September 3, 1899
near Porac, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company A, 36th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers
- Presentation date
- March 15, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓While on a scout drove off a superior force of insurgents and with the assistance of 1 comrade brought from the field of action the bodies of 2 comrades, 1 killed and the other severely wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James Robert Lee Gillenwater — 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-000491
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Rye Cove, Va.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- d732add70d4efe27ae94670e611afb2edc8fbcc6346e2f86d13c72452a6c9b67
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile expands the middle names and supplies the U.S. Volunteers component and near-Porac action place. The source-rendered lowercase “lee” is preserved in the evidence while canonical display capitalization is normalized.