Ten is roughly the average number of Medals awarded per day over the year. Yesterday there were no actions in our military history that caused a Medal to be awarded. Today, we make up for that, with twenty Medals, only one posthumous, spanning from the Civil War to Vietnam - with seventeen of them being for the same fight in 1890.Civil War, Stones River, Tennessee and Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi.RUSSELL, MILTON Rank and organization: Captain, Company A, 51st Indiana Infantry. Place and date: At...