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3 days ago · “Private Philip G. Shadrach and Private George D. Wilson will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for their gallantry and intrepidity while participating in a covert military operation 200 ...
4 days ago · Family members of Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson received the nation’s highest decoration for combat valor. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington The plan was bold, but ...
3 days ago · More than 160 years after they were captured and executed by Confederate rebels, two U.S. soldiers are set to be posthumously recognized for their valor during the Civil War with the Medal of...
3 days ago · A descendent of a Union soldier getting the Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden for conspicuous gallantry during the Civil War says it’s an opportunity for his ancestor to be remembered as “a brave soldier who did what he thought was right.”
4 days ago · Biden fixes 161-year-old oversight, awards Medal of Honor to 2 Civil War soldiers. On April 12, 1862, a group of Union soldiers stole a locomotive in Georgia and rode it north, destroying...
3 days ago · The president of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1863, has posthumously awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...
3 days ago · Biden awards posthumous Medal of Honor to 2 Union soldiers 13:51. The operation, one of the earliest special operations in U.S. Army history, was hatched by James Andrews, a Kentucky-born civilian ...
