by Katie Lange at CDN –

At the beginning of the Civil War, Army 1st Lt. Francis Edwin Brownell avenged the death of his unit’s colonel by taking out his killer. Those actions made Brownell a hero to the Union and were the first of the war to merit the newly created Medal of Honor. Brownell …
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