The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Major John Alexander Logan, Jr., United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry in leading his battalion upon the entrenchments of the enemy, on which occasion he fell mortally wounded on 11 November 1899, while serving with 33d Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at San Jacinto, Philippine Islands.