Biden recognized their courage 162 years later with the country's highest military decoration, calling the operation they joined one of the most dangerous missions of the entire Civil War.
The president said Wednesday that Shadrach and Wilson were fighting and even dying to preserve the union and the sacred values it was founded upon: freedom, justice, fairness, unity.
Every soldier who joined that mission was awarded the Medal of Honor except for two. Two soldiers who died because of that operation and never received this recognition," Biden said.
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