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Medal of Honor Recipient

Thomas Sletteland

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000534Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

April 12, 1899

near Paete, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company C, 1st North Dakota Infantry
Presentation date
March 11, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
Single-handed and alone defended his dead and wounded comrades against a greatly superior force of the enemy.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

Singlehanded and alone defended his dead and wounded comrades against a greatly superior 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.

  1. Thomas Sletteland — 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-000540
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
Grafton, N. Dak.
Archive transcription SHA-256
59decdc6272e9a7e44e80e77b5960dc7408f20b038c9fdfd46ae0d0c98b25e17

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current official profile confirms identity and action date and records conflict Philippine Insurrection; historical action place near Paete, Luzon, Philippine Islands. The source-rendered “Singlehanded” citation wording is preserved separately from the inherited hyphenated form.

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