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Biden to bestow Medal of Honor on two Civil War heroes
President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the American Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines.