At the height of the Civil War, a smuggler-turned-Union spy came up with a daring plan. Leading a team of two dozen Union soldiers from Ohio, James Andrews would sneak behind enemy lines, steal a ...

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 ...

President 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 ...

Army Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for the raid sometimes dubbed 'one of the earliest special operations missions.' By Jeff Schogol ...

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.

In the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, Union volunteers attempted to commandeer a train and ride it to a Southern stronghold, destroying bridges and rail lines behind them. It failed spectacularly.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -Two Ohio Civil War heroes were given the Presidential Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden. United States Army privates Philip Shadrach and George Wilson were both given the award ...

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 ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The reenactment will retrace the original route of the Andrews' Raid--an audacious mission on April 12, 1862, that ...