New York and Wisconsin, could help turn out!
Seems like a brave kid. I have no problem with recognizing his efforts.
But it also indicates a problem with today’s government: we spend a lot of time looking back for heroes, instead of inspiring our youths of the future.
The PC examination of our past, trying to correct “errors” seems a stupid use of our resources.
Obama does nothing simply because its the right thing to do.
Sadly everything 0bama touches becomes tainted.
You’re probably right. A bone to dampen the outrage about the VA.
Did LT Pelham get a medal of Honor too? Civil War Buffs would remember him. What no MOH for members of the CSA?
Oh, dear. This is the number of casualties, total of dead, wounded and missing on both sides.
Total deaths in battle <8,000 on both sides, though of course some later died of wounds.
That word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Given the usual proportions of total casualties to deaths in battle, 51,000 deaths would mean nobody was still on his feet at the end of the battle.
Most awards of the Medal of Honor for the Civil War were made long after the war ended. Veterans and veterans groups lobbied for recognition. At the head of the line were politicians and those who had stayed in the Army. Posthumous awards were quite rare, in line with the customs of the day.
After events of the Spanish American War, the Boxer Rebellion, and other turn of the century conflicts, standards were tightened and the Medal of Honor became the prestigious award that we know today. That is, until the White House started using it as yet another tool in their political correctness partisan behavior.
He certainly died bravely. Too bad it was for Lincoln, who pretty much single-handedly created our behemoth federal government and quashed states’ rights, in violation of the Constitution he swore to uphold and defend. Reasonably, if a state votes to join the union, it can also vote to secede from it. Otherwise, they’re enslaved.