Private, Company H, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry
Born: 1870, Mount Carmel, Connecticut
Died: 1929, Jamestown, North Dakota
Citation: With 11 other scouts [on 13 May 1899, at San Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon, Philippine Islands], 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.
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Willis H. Downs was born in September 1866. This can be confirmed through census records and also on his headstone in Jamestown ND. Thanks for your work!
mhelm
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