There are sixty-seven Medals awarded for actions on this day, sixty-four of them during the Civil War, including one rare posthumous award. The other three are from World War II and two of them are posthumous.Civil War. Prior to the Civil War, with the brief exception of Washington establishing the Purple Heart as an award for merit during the Revolution, the US military didn't have a system of medals. The Medal of Honor was established during the early days of the Civil War. The raft of Medals here, mostly from one battle, Sailor's (aka Saylor's) Creek, 6 April 1865, with a few others interspersed...
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