After taking a week or so off from having large numbers of awards, the Medal steps out on this day in history, with 22 Medals awarded, most of them during one battle in the Civil War, along with two from the Philippine Insurrection.Just to come along and kick me in the shins on my discussion of 19th Century warfare, where I observed that the Armys tended to go quiet as winter approached and opened it's own front, along comes today, and the Battle of Cedar Creek, which produced 20 Medals of Honor for one battle. The criteria for award of the...
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Oct 19 2009, 06:55 AM
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