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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Baxter Kinne

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-001289Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1906

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Medal of Honor

May 16, 1899

Near San Isidro, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company B, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry
Presentation date
May 17, 1906

The Citation

Sources ↓
With 21 other scouts charged across a burning bridge, under heavy fire, and completely routed 600 of the enemy who were entrenched in a strongly fortified position.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Baxter Kinne — 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-001296
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-28
Later or highest recorded rank
Captain
Entered service at
Fargo, N. Dak.
Archive transcription SHA-256
310a0f61ab064a05040a4eb49eaac31f04d50ecdf4438d7bcf80168f57586dda

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

The current profile expands the name and confirms the Philippine Insurrection award; a later Medical Corps captain rank from World War I is retained as later-service metadata.