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‘A service member’s sacrifices should be timeless’: Medal of Honor’s earliest recipients now eligible for VA-furnished grave markers
WASHINGTON — Richard Hamilton, a barrel-maker in Philadelphia, heeded President Abraham Lincoln’s call to service ... of 1,200 Medals of Honor were awarded during the Civil War for ...
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2 Civil War soldiers to receive Medal of Honor for one of the Army’s earliest special ops missions
20, 1861, he left home and enlisted, according to the service. The two men ... award Wilson and Shadrach with the medal. But Bush never did. “The Civil War Medal of Honor is ancient history.
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Biden will bestow the Medal of Honor on 2 Civil War heroes who helped hijack a train in confederacy
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for ... comes as the legacy of the Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 Union and Confederate service members between 1861 ...
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Detailed Civil War diary reveals Rio man's service as family keeps his story alive
Walker’s legacy from a Union Civil War brigade in Wisconsin remains alive with his ... After his Civil War service, he settled in Rio, where he and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Scott Walker, who ...