Rank and organization: Colonel, 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Place and date: At Rio Grande de la Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 27 April 1899
Entered service at: Iola, Kans. Birth: Springfield, Ohio
Date of issue: 14 February 1900
Citation: Crossed the river on a raft and by his skill and daring enabled the general commanding to carry the enemy's entrenched position on the north bank of the river and to drive him with great loss from the important strategic position of Calumpit.