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Re: Confederate Crosses of Honor
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I did some research on these UDC medals years ago and found the distribution to be arbitrary and possibly political. The first tier of recipients were no doubt their own fathers. That does not mean the medals were less significant than the MOH, which was awarded in the WBTS for things as trivial as removing a Confederate regimental flag from the hands of a dead soldier.

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