the service and the Department of Defense took time in 2024 to honor heroes from throughout its storied history. President Joe Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Civil War Soldiers Pvt.

All Medal of Honor recipients receive a pension starting on the date they formally receive the Medal of Honor, which is currently $1,329.58 per month, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Around 1964, a young Ron Shadrach was led by his great-aunt around Ohio’s capital to see historical locations significant to ...

Conceived in 1860 and first awarded in 1863, the Medal of Honor has been awarded only 3,459 times to 3,440 recipients, almost half of them Civil War soldiers. (There have been 19 double recipients.) ...

Bost led passage in the House of the Mark Our Place Act, which authorizes the “secretary of [the Department ... for another Medal of Honor recipient from the Civil War interred at Mountain ...

Numerous Indigenous veterans are currently being reviewed as potential recipients of the Medal of Honor — more than a century ...

The 12 states along U.S. Highway 20 account for about 62 percent of all 3,516 Medal of Honor awards presented since the Civil War. Designating U.S. Highway 20 as the “National Medal of Honor Highway'' ...

YORKTOWN — Descendants of Sgt. Maj. Edward Radcliffe, a Civil War-era Medal of Honor Recipient, gathered onboard Naval ...