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U.S. Army

Louis Joseph Van Schaick

ConflictPhilippine War

RankColonel

Year of Action1901

Unit/Command4th U.S. Infantry

BirthplaceCobleskill, New York

Citation

While in pursuit of a band of insurgents was the first of his detachment to emerge from a canyon, and seeing a column of insurgents and fearing they might turn and dispatch his men as they emerged one by one from the canyon, galloped forward and closed with the insurgents, thereby throwing them into confusion until the arrival of others of the detachment.

Branch: U.S. Army Conflict: Philippine War Year of Action: 1901