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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rushmore, post: 26030655, member: 17011&quot;]This came in the mail courtesy of Ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1655165[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Civil War campaign medal.&nbsp; They were first rewarded back in 1905 but no funds were available to mint the medals until 1956 30 years after Ralph died.&nbsp; Next of kin can apply for medals but no one did that I am aware of.&nbsp; My great grandfather was deceased in 1956 and only of his sisters were left but I believe that sister had dementia at that point so unlikely she would have filed the paperwork.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_Campaign_Medal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_Campaign_Medal" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_Campaign_Medal</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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