There are eighteen Medals awarded for actions on this day. Seventeen split between two Civil War battles, and one from Vietnam. One award was posthumous.Civil War. Three sailors from the Fort Hindman, and fourteen soldiers who apparently were playing "Capture the Flag" at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, in 1865, where Union Generals Phil Sheridan and George Custer destroyed the remnants of Confederate General Jubal Early's force.ANDERSON, CHARLES W. Rank and organization: Private, Company K, 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry. Place and date: At Waynesboro, Va., 2 March 1865. Entered service at: ------. Birth: New Orleans, La. Date of issue:...
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