A Medal of Honor awarded to a Civil War general was
found inside a book at a church fundraising sale.

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into
law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal
of Honor, in the name of Congress, “to such noncommissioned
officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during
the present insurrection.”

Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)