Medal of Honor
May 13, 1899
San Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- Company H, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry
- Presentation date
- February 16, 1906
The Citation
Sources ↓With 11 other scouts, without waiting for the supporting battalion to aid them or to get into a position to do so, charged over a distance of about 150 yards and completely routed about 300 of the enemy who were in line and in a position that could only be carried by a frontal attack.
Sources & record notes
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- Willis H Downs — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000483
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Wagoneer
- Entered service at
- Jamestown, N. Dak.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 9caf251d3ff494a327c89dc752a6432f70c13b97ba59e767b64b5e61dfb82946
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 Wagoneer as the highest/later rank and replaces the modern Bulacan geocoder result with San Miguel de Mayumo.