Civil War soldiers Pvt. Philip Shadrach, left, and Pvt. George Wilson, right, will be posthumously presented the Medal of Honor for their roles in the “Great Locomotive Chase” that took place in 1862.

WASHINGTON — The White House announced President Joe Biden will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Civil War Soldiers Pvt. Philip Gephart Shadrach and Pvt. George Davenport Wilson for their ...

Four days after the Confederate army bombed Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., that launched the American Civil War on April 12, 1861, 18-year-old Sylvester Dana Rhodes of Plains Township ...

In 1862, a group of 24 soldiers from the Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the Union Army worked to disrupt confederate forces in the Civil War. One of those men was Philip Shadrach, who was from Somerset ...

Capt. Hugh P. Boon received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Salyer's Creek, the last major battle of the Civil War. Two styles of the Medal of Honor given to Boon and other ...

As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862, they endured a march that stretched more than 12 miles. Eager to lighten their load in harsh ...

But the ceremony to honor the Marine with the nation’s highest medal for valor was unique in more ways than one. At the age ...

President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Wednesday to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it ...