This is a rare day for the Medal of Honor - all of the recipients of the Medal of Honor for actions on the 29th of July survived their fights. We open with the Civil War and the Battle of Brown's Mill, where Confederate (and later, during the SpanAm War, Federal) General Joe Wheeler's cavalry schooled Union cavalry under General Edward McCook near Newnan, Georgia, bringing a disastrous end to Sherman's attempt to neatly snip Atlanta from it's logisitics, forcing a siege. McCook lost over 1200 troopers killed or captured, to Wheeler's.... 50. HEALEY, GEORGE W. Rank and organization: Private,...
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