The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Clarence Milville Condon, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 5 November 1899, while serving with Battery G, 3d Artillery, in action at Calulut, Luzon, Philippine Islands. While in command of a detachment of four men, Sergeant Condon charged and routed 40 entrenched insurgents, inflicting on them heavy loss.