The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Musician Calvin Pearl Titus, United States Army, for gallant and daring conduct in the presence of his colonel and other officers and enlisted men of his regiment on 14 August 1900, while serving with Company E, 14th Infantry, at Peking, China. Musician Titus was first to scale the wall of the city.