We start with the Civil War, and 23 Medals for the
Battle of the Crater (warning - turn your sound down, annoying music). , plus two others for other fights. There are two more Medals for actions at The Crater, which were awarded for multiple actions. I will list those on the day of the last action the Medal was issued for.
The Civil War has several battles where a large number of Medals are awarded - because not only was the Medal new (it was established in 1863) it was the *only* award of it's type. So, today, many of these Medals would be covered by the Bronze Star with V, Silver Star and Distinguished Service Cross. There is another thing to consider, especially when comparing to the current environment of the Global War On Terror/Contingency Operations - in the Civil War, the big fights had tens of thousands of people closing, or attempting to close, to hand-to-hand combat. In the post-invasion-of-Iraq fighting rarely do you have a thousand combatants in a fight (2nd Fallujah is a good example) the fights are usually small unit actions, involving fewer than 100 troops combined. There are both fewer people engaged and fewer people observing the engagements. There are simply many Medal moments that... no one noticed.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2014/07/todays_medal_of_405.html
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Jul 30 2014, 06:57 AM
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