Antoine August Michel Gaujot The Gaujot brothers , Antoine August Michel Gaujot and Julien E . Gaujot , are one of the five sets of brothers who have received the Medal of Honor and the only pair to have been so honored for actions in different wars . Both brothers graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . Early Life and education . Antoine August Michel Gaujot was born on December 12 , 1878 in Eagle Harbor Township , Michigan , United States . His father , Ernest R . Gaujot , a French - born mining engineer , emigrated to Tamaqua , Pennsylvania , where he met and married Susan Ellen McGuigan . The family subsequently relocated to Michigan , then lived for a while in Ontario , Canada , before moving to Lynchburg , Virginia . Ernest Gaujot had traveled to Japan in 1877 to serve as general superintendent of mines . He solved some significant problems while in Japan , for which the Mikado reportedly conferred on him the honorary title of " general " . In 1894 , the family moved to what the following year would become Mingo County , West Virginia , at a time of rapid expansion of coal mining operations in the region . Ernest Gaujot was resident engineer for the Koontz Brothers of New York City , whose mineral holdings in Mingo County were consolidated under the name United Thacker Coal Company . Antoine A . M . Gaujot , also called " Tony " , attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute ( VPI ) in 1896 and 1897 but did not graduate . A civil engineer by profession , he obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Infantry Reserve . Military career . Antoine Gaujot received the Medal of Honor for actions on December 19 , 1899 as a United States Army corporal at the Battle of Paye near Mateo during the Philippine - American War . " He made persistent effort under heavy enemy rifle fire to locate a ford in order to help his unit cross the swollen river to attack . Unable to accomplish this he swam with a companion again under fire and against a dangerous current across the river to the enemy side . There , he secured an enemy canoe and returned it to the friendly side of the river . " Antoine ' s medal was issued February 15 , 1911 and sent to him by registered mail ( a common procedure at that time ) . He was later commissioned in the National Guard and saw service during the Mexican Border Crisis and in France during World War I . Tony was mustered out along with his brother and the rest of 2d West Virginia Volunteers on April 10 , 1899 . He died on April 14 , 1936 in Williamson , West Virginia , and is buried at Fairview Cemetery in Williamson . Records at Virginia Tech indicate that Antoine was murdered by Julien ' s son . Court Martial . Although eventually ruled an accidental death Tony was tried by court martial for killing a soldier of the regiment at Camp Wetherhill . An undated manuscript handwritten statement , apparently written by the regimental adjutant , initially charged Tony with a violation of the 62d Article of War . " Murder , to the prejudice of good order and Military discipline . " The document alleged that , around 6 p . m . on November 29 , 1898 , Tony , " in attempting to arrest Private Frank Scurlock . . . secure [ d ] from the tent of his Captain without the Captain ' s Knowledge [ sic ] , a revolver , and going to the tent wherein the said Private Frank Scurlock was , shoot him with the said revolver , in the neck , " thereby causing his death . A typed document changed the charge to " Murder , in violation of the 58th Article of War , " and charged that Tony " feloniously and with malice aforethought " shot and murdered Scurlock " by firing . . . a bullet from a revolver , " inflicting " a mortal wound " from which " Scurlock languished and on the 5th day of December 1898 , died . " Tony was tried by a general court martial at Camp Wetherhill but was acquitted of the charge . He was released from confinement and returned to duty on February 2 , 1899 . He was also repromoted to first sergeant , having been reduced in grade to duty sergeant on January 1 . Within a week , Tony requested a 15 day furlough " for the purpose of visiting my parents at Williamson . . . " First Lt . Charles W . Cramer , acting commander of Company K , forwarded the request to the divisional adjutant , " approved . " Cramer noted that Tony had " just been released from a confinement of 60 days duration for the killing of Private Scurlock of which he was acquitted by a General Court Martial . . . " Approval was warranted because , " The killing of Private Scurlock has greatly worried the mother of Sergeant Gaujot who is in very delicate health and she has written me a number of times asking me to procure him a furlough as soon as he was released . " Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Corporal , Company M , 27th Infantry , U . S . Volunteers . Place and date : At San Mateo , Philippine Islands , December 19 , 1899 . Entered service at : Williamson , W . Va . Birth : Keweenaw , Mich . Date of issue : February 15 , 1911 . Citation : Attempted under a heavy fire of the enemy to swim a river for the purpose of obtaining and returning with a canoe .