Joseph Epps
Discovered a party of insurgents inside a wall, climbed to the top of the wall, covered them with his gun, and forced them to stack
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Discovered a party of insurgents inside a wall, climbed to the top of the wall, covered them with his gun, and forced them to stack
Distinguished gallantry in action in driving off a superior force and with the assistance of 1 comrade brought from the field of action the bodies
With 11 other scouts, without waiting for the supporting battalion to aid them or to get into position to do so, charged over a distance
Voluntarily exposed himself to a hot fire from the enemy in repelling with pistol fire an insurgent attack and at great risk of his own
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
Swam the San Juan River in the face of the enemy’s fire and drove him from his entrenchments.
Within a range of 250 yards of the enemy and in the face of a rapid fire climbed a telegraph pole at the east end
With another officer and a native Filipino, was shot at from an ambush, the other officer falling severely wounded. 2d Lt. Wallace fired in the
While in action against hostile Moros, when the machinegun detachment, having been driven from its position by a heavy fire, 1 member being killed, did,
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