lurid
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2019
Other than people who are historians or history buffs, McKinley isn't well known and is just deemed as the 25th President of the United States. I suppose it's not appropriate to discuss his presidency, even though he realigned the Republican Party into greatness, economically was for the working man and the father of modern foreign policy. Imo, McKinley is totally underrated as a president and his military service during the CW is more underrated.
The United States honors JFK and George Bush Sr. for their service but to my knowledge, William McKinley never get his props for his heroics and heroics they were indeed.
McKinley enters the CW out of Ohio as a private and is discharged 4 years later as a Major and received 3 battlefield commissions for valor. Recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor but turned it down and said, "I was just doing my duty."
Undertook 2 suicide missions: one near Kernstown, Virginia, which he was ordered to ride across the battlefield under heavy fire to warn the 13th West Virginia to withdraw before they were overrun and cut and half by General Early's army, who were close to splitting the Union left. If the Rebels succeeded in driving Union forces out of the Shenandoah Valley, they might have threatened Washington, D.C..
East of Antietam Creek, after 12 hours of brutal fighting, they captured a bridge and soon enough were over the creek, sheltered from the Confederate fire. His platoon was ordered to pull out twice, McKinley ignored the orders and confiscated a wagon full of food and coffee a brought to the wounded and ailing Ohio comrades, he busted through a barrage of Confederate cannonball fire, artillery and musketry where the wagon was half blown to pieces as he arrived unharmed.
McKinley was always in the center of the action. His valor was infallible and deserves more attention than a lot of other people who got their due.
The United States honors JFK and George Bush Sr. for their service but to my knowledge, William McKinley never get his props for his heroics and heroics they were indeed.
McKinley enters the CW out of Ohio as a private and is discharged 4 years later as a Major and received 3 battlefield commissions for valor. Recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor but turned it down and said, "I was just doing my duty."
Undertook 2 suicide missions: one near Kernstown, Virginia, which he was ordered to ride across the battlefield under heavy fire to warn the 13th West Virginia to withdraw before they were overrun and cut and half by General Early's army, who were close to splitting the Union left. If the Rebels succeeded in driving Union forces out of the Shenandoah Valley, they might have threatened Washington, D.C..
East of Antietam Creek, after 12 hours of brutal fighting, they captured a bridge and soon enough were over the creek, sheltered from the Confederate fire. His platoon was ordered to pull out twice, McKinley ignored the orders and confiscated a wagon full of food and coffee a brought to the wounded and ailing Ohio comrades, he busted through a barrage of Confederate cannonball fire, artillery and musketry where the wagon was half blown to pieces as he arrived unharmed.
McKinley was always in the center of the action. His valor was infallible and deserves more attention than a lot of other people who got their due.