User blog comment:JAlbor/BioShock Infinite and American History/@comment-75.36.137.163-20140221111105

"After Wounded Knee, twenty Medals of Honor were bestowed to American troops, the highest honor the Army can give to soldiers"   Congressional Medals of Honor are awarded by the Congress and they are given to all branches of the military. Also they were much abused, often for political reasons. An entire unit in the civil war was awarded one for just re-enlisting. Later they were much more careful how they gave them out. The Lakota were a subset of the Indians who 'massacred' Custer and there may have been a political motive behind 'finishing' them and then that travesty of awarding so many (or any)  CMoH for this military action.