U.S. officials rectified that Thursday. President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony to descendants of the Cushing family, more than 151 years after the battle.

Obama on Thursday was bestowing the Medal of Honor on 1st Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing, who was killed in July 1863 during the three-day battle near the Pennsylvania town. The battle often is described as ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

Jerry Taylor holds the U.S. Medal of Honor recognizing his great-uncle Philip G. Shadrach, a private in the Union army who died in the American Civil War. Taylor was recently given the medal by ...

Other pre-1917 conflicts with Medal of Honor recipients include the Spanish American War of 1898, the Indian wars waged from 1609 to 1924, the Boxer Rebellion fought in China from 1899 to 1901 ...