Thirteen Medals have been awarded for actions on this day, or, in one case, a period of time which ended on this day. Only two wars - the Civil War, where eleven Medals were awarded, ten of them to the crew of one vessel, and World War Two, one in the European theater, the other in the Pacific.Civil War. Sergeant Fox earned his Medal in a fight in Tennessee in 1862, the rest of these gentlemen sailed a "powder boat" (that's just what it sounds like, a small vessel stuffed full of black...