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 ...

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 ...

Pueblo County celebrated the naming of a new road after a Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Nov. 21. Warren C. Dockum was born in Clintonville, New York. At the age of 17, Dockum enlisted ...

The 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner was a fairly inconsequential battle of the Civil War in terms of overall tactics and strategy. The Union Army needed to capture the rebel-held fort as part of its ...

The Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest military decoration, awarded to service members who have demonstrated extraordinary bravery and selflessness in combat, often at the cost of their own ...

The National Civil War Museum, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, will host Richard Banz 2-3 p.m. March 24, who will lecture about Andrew's Raiders and The Great Locomotive Chase. It was ...

ATLANTA — Medal of Honor recipients participated in a reenactment of the Great Locomotive Chase in Kennesaw, retracing the historic events of 1862. The reenactment, organized by CSX Railroad, involved ...

The somber atmosphere of the National Medal of Honor Museum is tangible before even entering its space. Visitors step into a glass elevator, smoothly ascending from the sunlit ground floor into the ...

The origin of the highest military decoration dates back to the American Civil War when Iowa Senator James W. Crimes introduced a bill to “promote the efficiency of the Navy” by authorizing the ...