President Biden has honored two Civil War soldiers with the nation’s highest military honor. During an East Room ceremony, the president awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army Privates Philip Shadrach and George Wilson for conspicuous gallantry. In 1862, they stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines. The White House said it is unknown why the two men were not originally recommended for the Medal of Honor.