James Robert Lee Gillenwater

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal James Robert Lee Gillenwater, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 3 September 1899, while serving with Company A, 36th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Porac, Luzon, Philippine Islands. While on a scout, Corporal Gillenwater drove off a superior force of insurgents and with the assistance of one comrade brought from the field of action the bodies of two comrades, one killed and the other severely wounded.