Medal of Honor
December 4, 1899
Vigan, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company B, 33d Infantry, U.S. Volunteers
- Presentation date
- February 7, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Discovered a party of insurgents inside a wall, climbed to the top of the wall, covered them with his gun, and forced them to stack arms and surrender.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Joseph L Epps — 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-000484
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Entered service at
- Oklahoma Indian Territory
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 5214e70f93699aab0cac3fe54e92b56ec99cf912f1a078f7de4c4acac22e7302
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 inherited country-level location with Vigan, Luzon.