It took 162 years for a man who enlisted in Warren County to fight for the Union in the Civil War to receive the nation’s highest military honor for a mission so audacious it inspired Hollywood films.

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

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two Ohio Civil War soldiers, who played crucial roles in one of the earliest covert military operations that became the subject of a classic Hollywood silent film, finally ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. – The year was 1862. With the Civil War in full throttle, around two dozen Union Army soldiers from Ohio snuck onto Confederate territory with a bold plan to destroy enemy supply ...

WASHINGTON — In brief remarks honoring two Union soldiers killed after a failed effort to sabotage a Confederate rail line in 1862, President Joe Biden celebrated their bravery and commitment to their ...

Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients traced the route of the Civil War's Great Locomotive Chase. The Great Locomotive Chase led to the awarding of the very first Medals of Honor in 1863. The group ...

WASHINGTON — It was a bright and sunny summer day in Atlanta, Georgia as seven Union Soldiers stood on a raised platform with nooses around their necks, preparing to give their lives for the America ...

To officially kick-off the 2025 Medal of Honor Celebration in Chattanooga, the Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, in partnership with CSX, ...

The reenactment will retrace the original route of the Andrews' Raid—an audacious mission on April 12, 1862, that ultimately led to our country's first Medals of Honor awarded on March 25, 1863 ...