Medal of Honor
July 26, 1899
Calamba, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- 4th U.S. Cavalry
- Presentation date
- March 8, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Swam the San Juan River in the face of the enemy's fire and drove him from his entrenchments.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Matthew Arlington Batson — 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-000463
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain
- Entered service at
- Carbondale, Ill.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 87845092c5b313dc7d9d70c0a00d791af504291d914da88b451928be2b645522
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
First Lieutenant is retained as the action rank and Captain as the highest/later rank. The current profile expands the middle name and replaces the modern province result with the historical Calamba wording.