The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private John F. Chase, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 3 May 1863, while serving with Battery 5, Maine Light Artillery, in action at Chancellorsville, Virginia. Nearly all the officers and men of the battery having been killed or wounded, Private Chase with a comrade continued to fire his gun after the guns had ceased. The piece was then dragged off by the two, the horses having been shot, and its capture by the enemy was prevented.