COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two Ohio Civil War soldiers, who played crucial roles in one of the earliest covert military operations that became the subject of a classic Hollywood silent film, finally ...

It took 162 years for a man who enlisted in Warren County to fight for the Union in the Civil War to receive the nation’s highest military honor for a mission so audacious it inspired Hollywood films.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – The year was 1862. With the Civil War in full throttle, around two dozen Union Army soldiers from Ohio snuck onto Confederate territory with a bold plan to destroy enemy supply ...