A year after the Civil War ended, West Virginia authorized the minting of more than 26,000 medals to honor the state’s soldiers that served in the Union Army. More than 150 years later, however ...

He was one of more than 1,500 Civil War veterans and one of 146 Irishmen who received the medal. "Yes, the Irish immediately fell in love with our country.

The Civil War Campaign Medal was conceived in the early 1900s, around the 40th anniversary of the end of the war. Even Memorial Day was founded with the Civil War in mind.

The last honoree for Civil War service was Cpl. Andrew Jackson Smith of Clinton, Ill., who received the medal in 2001. The Cushing name is prominent in the southeastern Wisconsin town of Delafield.

Civil War veteran 1st Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Robert Siegel talks to Kent Brown, author of Cushing ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama awarded Civil War artillery officer Alonzo Cushing the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. award for bravery, on Thursday, 151 years after he was killed manning ...

Civil War hero Alonzo H. Cushing died at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. — -- More than a century and a half after his death at the Battle of Gettysburg, a Union Army officer is being ...

It's taken a century and a half, plus the determination of a 90-year-old historian, for Civil War soldier Alonzo Cushing to finally receive a Medal of Honor. The Wisconsin soldier died at ...

Biden praises Civil War soldiers, Medal of Honor recipients for ‘heroic deeds’ by Brad Dress - 07/03/24 5:26 PM ET ...

A Medal of Honor awarded to a Civil War general has been returned to a Maine town after it was found inside a book at a church fundraising sale. The Times Record of Brunswick, Maine reports Civil ...

FIRESTONE, Colo. (CBS4) - A family needs help recovering missing medals after they were stolen from their Firestone home. The medals were awarded to a Civil War veteran who helped make Colorado ...