Two Civil War soldiers who infiltrated Confederate territory to steal a train and destroy the enemy railroad system will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

The men were among a team of Union troops and spies who carried out an audacious, but ultimately failed, mission known as the Great Locomotive Chase. Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for ...

Nearly 20 Medal of Honor recipients will ride a train following the same route as the Civil War's Great Locomotive Chase from ...

VALPARAISO | If you could talk with a Hoosier veteran about his experiences -- in the Civil War -- what would you ask? Area residents will get the chance, of sorts, this week when historical ...

Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients retraced the route of the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase on Tuesday, a historic event ...

WASHINGTON -- President 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 ...

Historian and battlefield guide Darryl Smith will present “The Battle of Perryville and The Kentucky Campaign” at the next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley at 7 p.m.

ATLANTA — Medal of Honor recipients participated in a reenactment of the Great Locomotive Chase in Kennesaw, retracing the historic events of 1862. The reenactment, organized by CSX Railroad, involved ...

Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for their role in a daring Civil War mission to hijack a locomotive and sabotage a rail line vital to the Confederacy, were recognized Wednesday with the ...