Logan Feland Major General Logan Feland ( 18 August 1869 – 17 July 1936 ) was a United States Marine Corps general who last served as Commanding General of the Department of the Pacific . Feland served during the Spanish - American War ( 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry ) , the occupation of Veracruz ( 1914 ) and in World War I , where he was in command of all troops during the Battle of Belleau Wood . Biography . Logan Feland was born in Hopkinsville , Kentucky on August 18 , 1869 , he received a B . A . in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892 . He married Katherine Cordner on February 14 , 1907 . During the Spanish American War , he was Captain of Company F , 3rd Kentucky Infantry from May 31 , 1898 until May 16 , 1899 , when he was honorably mustered out . By virtue of his previous military experience he was appointed directly to the rank of first lieutenant in the Marine Corps on 1 July 1899 . Feland was promoted to captain , 3 March 1903 ; to major , 29 August 1916 ; to lieutenant colonel , 26 March 1917 ; to colonel 1 July 1918 ; to brigadier general , 9 March 1919 ; and to major general , 1 October 1931 . In the grades of lieutenant and captain he served with Marine Detachments on , " Massachusetts " , " Indiana " , " Minnesota " , and " Montana " . Prior to World War I he had more than eight years of foreign duty including service in Panama in 1904 and in 1911 ; expeditions to Guantanamo Bay in 1904 , 1911 , 1912 , and 1913 ; San Juan , Puerto Rico , in 1904 ; service with the Army of Cuban Pacification in 1906 ; service in Santo Domingan waters in 1912 ; Culebra in 1914 ; and the occupation of Vera Cruz , Mexico , in 1914 . His home service was equally varied and included duty at Marine Barracks , Washington , D . C . , League Island ( Philadelphia ) , Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island , Norfolk , and New York ; instruction in submarine mining at the Torpedo Station , Narragansett Bay ; teaching in the School of Application , Annapolis , and the Advanced Base School , New London , Connecticut ; observation of Army artillery practice at Fortress Monroe , Virginia ; the supervising of construction of new barracks at Annapolis ; and recruiting in New York . World War I . Feland was attached to the 5th Marine Regiment for service in France in World War I and was among the first contingent of American forces which went overseas with General Pershing in May 1917 . On his arrival in France , Feland was made executive officer of the 5th Marines . When the unit , as part of the 4th Marine Brigade , was thrown into the breach to stem the German advance at Château - Thierry in May 1918 , Feland was , as ever , in the thick of the fighting . At Belleau Woods in June 1918 when the halt in the German advance was turned into a retreat , Feland was given command of all troops in the Wood . For his conspicuous valor on this occasion , he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross . After his promotion to colonel , Feland became commanding officer of the 5th Regiment and as such led it in the Battles of Soissons , Blanc Mont Ridge and in the Argonne . For his outstanding exploits in the War , Feland was awarded , in addition to the Distinguished Service Cross mentioned above , the Distinguished Service Medals of both the Army and the Navy , Officer ' s rank in the Legion of Honor , the Croix de Guerre with bronze star , gold star , and four palms , and was cited in dispatches six times . Upon his return to the United States in May 1919 , Feland was stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps until December when he was detached to command the 2nd Brigade in Santo Domingo . Returning to the United States the following fall , he again joined Headquarters in the capacity of Director of the Division of Operations and Training . He held that post for two years after which he was Assistant to the Major General Commandant for another two years . From November 1926 to February 1927 he was called from his command of the Marine Expeditionary Force at Quantico to head the Eastern Section of the U . S . Mail Guard . In April 1927 , Feland took command of the 2nd Brigade in Nicaragua . After four months in Nicaragua he was transferred to the command of Marine Barracks , Parris Island , South Carolina , which post he held from September 1927 to January 1928 . He then returned to Nicaragua and assumed command of the Brigade for a second time , serving there until March 1929 . For this second tour in Nicaragua , Feland was awarded another Distinguished Service Medal . Following a short period at Headquarters after his return from Nicaragua , Feland was assigned as Commanding General , Department of the Pacific in July 1929 . He was serving in that position when he was detached on 25 February 1933 . He retired from the Marine Corps on 1 September 1933 . Major General Feland died at Columbus , Ohio on 17 July 1936 . He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery . Awards and honors . Feland is the recipient of the following awards :