Medal of Honor
November 23, 1901
near Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- 4th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓While in pursuit of a band of insurgents was the first of his detachment to emerge from a canyon, and seeing a column of insurgents and fearing they might turn and dispatch his men as they emerged one by one from the canyon, galloped forward and closed with the insurgents, thereby throwing them into confusion until the arrival of others of the detachment.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Louis Joseph van Schaick — 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-000547
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 33
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel
- Entered service at
- Cobleskill, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- a1af36c54bff3f54438024a9ffa899aae090f6e76785d168b6be7beb7a6de5fa
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official profile expands the middle name, preserves First Lieutenant as the action rank and Colonel as the later rank, and contains the rendered “Provience” spelling; the canonical place normalizes that spelling while preserving the source rendering.