Ohio regiment soldiers receive Medal of Honor for Civil War locomotive chase President Joe Biden will fix the 161-year-old oversight by honoring Private Philip G. Shadrach and Private George D ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Two soldiers who fought with the Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War and were hanged during the battle, will be awarded the Medal of Honor. George Davenport Wilson ...

More than 150 years later, Biden posthumously honored the two on Wednesday. Wilson was born in 1830 in Belmont County, Ohio and was enlisted in a volunteer infantry in 1861.

Private George D. Wilson, a shoemaker from Belmont County, Ohio, enlisted in the Union Army’s Company B, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on Aug. 31, 1861.