US History please help, best answer gets 10 points !!?

[Mykel]

He was the first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

a. Sergeant William Carney
b. General Joseph Hooker
c. General Tecumseh Sherman
d. none of the above

 

[Captain Zorikh]

A. Sergeant William Carney

 

[Captain Zorikh]

A. Sergeant William Carney

 

[Chauncey Q. Buttercup]

Hooker and Sherman were both white and the answer is William Harvey Carney for action in the Civil War.

 

[Captain Zorikh]

A. Sergeant William Carney

 

[Captain Zorikh]

A. Sergeant William Carney