CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A man is set to receive a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor Friday and will become the first Citadel graduate to do so. Capt. Hugh Reavis Nelson, a graduate of the ...
Hugh Nelson Jr. received the Congressional Medal of Honor at the White House on his behalf. Nelson was killed in action on June 5, 1966, at 28 years old. On that day, CPT Nelson was piloting a ...