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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...

First... Sorry John. All things considered it IS a lame excuse in context, but I've been busy here on the ridge.

Further proof G-d is a Womyn. "God promised me that beautiful women would be found in all corners of the Earth. And then made the Earth a globe. And laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed..."

The subject of today's frolicsome adventuring. From left to right - German training round in 7.62 NATO, a standard round of 7.62 NATO ball ammunition, and a 11mm M1886 Mannlicher round, complete with cat hair for scale. Hey, those rounds are paper-patched and greased, we have cats. There's gonna be cat hair for scale.

With a scale for you, even. I'm getting to be such a softie....

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There are ten Medals awarded for actions on this day, three of them posthumous. Unusually, one of the posthumous awards is to a Civil War soldier.Civil War. In the case of Corporal McVeane, his posthumous award is either because he died in subsequent combat (or the myriad diseases) or other causes before his award was made in 1870. Dead men receive no surrenders, unless perhaps they are El Cid, and strapped to their horse. Upon further digging, it would appear McVeane was a colourful [sic] soldier...