Medal of Honor
February 4, 1900
Mount Amia, Cebu, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company G, 19th U.S. Infantry
- Presentation date
- March 10, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Singlehanded, defended his mortally wounded captain from an overwhelming force of the enemy.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Louis Gedeon — 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-000489
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant
- Entered service at
- Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b0053b983fd2ed9f51014ab866091ec11ab1728f7e7ec44d98d7ebf6be43904a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile retains Private as the action rank and Sergeant as the highest/later rank and replaces the inherited bank geocoder result with Mount Amia, Cebu.