2 Union Soldiers involved in Great Locomotive Chase to receive MoH

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steve58

July 03, 2024, 09:28:24 AM
QuotePresident Biden will on Wednesday posthumously award the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who pirated a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and then drove it 87 miles north, destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines along the way.

Private Philip G. Shadrach and Private George D. Wilson will receive the honor for their gallantry and intrepidity while participating in a covert military operation 200 miles behind Confederate lines on April 12, 1862, which became known as the Great Locomotive Chase.

In what was one of the earliest special operations in U.S. Army history, Union soldiers dressed as civilians infiltrated the Confederacy and hijacked the General Locomotive in Georgia before proceeding north.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-award-medal-honor-union-soldiers-one-earliest-special-operations-army-history
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July 03, 2024, 10:08:31 AM
...better late than never, I guess.
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