Union Army Awards and Commendations

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Individual awards can be downloaded by right clicking over the original and saving to your pc.

Additional Awards These awards were discontinued in the November 2021 General Orders. Officers of units who had previously received these awards may still display them.
	Army Combat Medallion awarded by the CoA to the army with the best combat record for the previous quarter, utilizing the following formula: (MV's x 4 + mV's x 3 + DRAWs x 2 + mD's x 1) divided by (Aggregate Battles x 4) = WinAvg.
Brass Breastplate for display on army site for one award.        Silver Breastplate for display on army site for five awards.         Gold Breastplate for display on army site for ten awards.
	Army Muster Medallion awarded by the CoA to the army with the best muster percentage for the previous quarter, utilizing the following formula: (Effectives x 2 + Present x1) divided by (Aggregate x 3) = Strength %.
Brass Breastplate for display on army site for one award.        Silver Breastplate for display on army site for five awards.         Gold Breastplate for display on army site for ten awards.
	War College Prize Ribbon Awarded by Union War College for best article submission.
	Purple Heart Ribbon An old award given to officers for suffering 3 Major Defeats in a row. No longer in use and provided here only for download purposes.

 

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Original page designed by D. S. Walter.
Current design by Ken Miller with assistance from Larry 'Notso' Quick.
Graphics by Rob Love, Ken Miller and others.
Awards and ribbons depicted here are based on designs by Rob Love, Dierk Walter, Ken Miller, Joseph Meyer & others.
Current Union award designs were produced by Joseph Meyer.
Maintained by Ken Miller

This page last updated
Last updated June 11, 2022

 

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