The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Milden Henry Wilson, United States Army, for gallantry in forming company from line of skirmishers and deploying again under a galling fire, and in carrying dispatches at the imminent risk of his life, on 9 August 1877, while serving with Company I, 7th U.S. Infantry, in action at Big Hole, Montana.