 President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines. U.S. Army Privates Philip Stratik and George Wilson were captured by Confederates and executed by hanging. Biden recognized their courage 162 years later with the country's highest military decoration. The very first recipients of the Medal of Honor were a small band known as