Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for their role in a daring Civil War mission to hijack ... made history as the first service member to receive the Medal of Honor. Historians and family ...

Civil War soldiers Pvt. Philip Shadrach, left, and Pvt. George Wilson, right, will be posthumously presented the Medal of Honor for ... extraordinary acts of service and bravery on behalf of ...

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 ...

Born in the small town of Florence in northeastern Wisconsin, Charles Whittlesey was a Medal of Honor ... States entered World War I. He soon volunteered for military service, and was shipped ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...