President Biden will posthumously award the Medal of Honor on Wednesday to two Union spies who stole a Confederate locomotive during the Civil War.
At a White House ceremony, Mr. Biden will recognize the heroism of Pvts. Phillip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson, who each served in the Union Army with the 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment — Shadrach in Company K and Wilson in Company B.
The two soldiers were part of Andrews’ Raiders — an infamous group of two civilians and several infantrymen — who in April 1862 donned civilian clothes and stole a Confederate locomotive near Kennesaw, Georgia. Confederate soldiers took the Raiders, including Shadrach and Wilson, to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they were convicted of “bridge burning.” They were then moved to Atlanta where seven of the Raiders, including civilian scout James Andrews along with Shadrach and Wilson, were hanged in June 1862.
In all, between 1863 and 1884, 19 Raiders were Medal of Honor recipients. A medal was offered to another soldier, who declined to accept it because he’d been stopped by Confederate troops and never made it to Georgia.
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