President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for 'conspicuous gallantry' to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the American Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 10:37AMPresident Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor on Wednesday for "conspicuous gallantry" to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the American Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines.
Biden, a Democrat, has said that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump was the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War. Meanwhile, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, riffed at a recent Pennsylvania rally about the Battle of Gettysburg and about the Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
On April 12, 1862, 22 of the men in what was later called "Andrews' Raiders" met up in Marietta, Georgia, and hijacked a train named "The General." The group tore up tracks and sliced through telegraph wires while taking the train north. The government later recognized 18 other participants who took part in the raid with the honor, but Shadrach and Wilson were excluded. They were later authorized to receive the medal as part of the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act.
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