News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Saturday July 06, 2024 ( 1 items ) |
Two Civil War Soldiers Earn Medal of Honor for Hijacking Confederate Railroad
WASHINGTON, July 5 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news:
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, Wednesday, to two Army soldiers for their actions during the Civil War, April 12, 1862.
"The very first recipients of the Medal of Honor were a small band known as Andrews' Raiders, named for a spy for the Union Army, James Andrews, who led one of the most daring operations in the entire Civil War," Biden said. "Two soldiers ... died because of that oper
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