The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Charles Goodwin Bickham, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 2 May 1902, while serving with 27th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. First Lieutenant Bickham crossed a fire-swept field, in close range of the enemy, and brought a wounded soldier to a place of shelter.