Medal of Honor
December 5, 1906
La Paz, Leyte, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company L, 8th U.S. Infantry
- Presentation date
- October 20, 1908
The Citation
Sources ↓With his right arm cut open with a bolo, went to the assistance of a wounded constabulary officer and a fellow soldier who were surrounded by about 40 Pulajanes, and, using his disabled rifle as a club, beat back the assailants and rescued his party.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Seth Lathrop Weld — 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-000555
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel
- Entered service at
- Altamont, Tenn.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 9e741965cdda3b0eeab75651a70aeb590a1c2e063399bff2184af5553b5390f4
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 and preserves Corporal as the action rank and Colonel as the later rank.