 FACT: Colonel Mosby is shown admiring his medals awarded to him by  the Confederate Army while serving in the US Civil War. The  Confederates didnt award any medals because they didnt have the  money to make them. And by the time came they could issue any medals  they lost the war anyway. In fact the first such medal was  posthumously presented over a hundred years later in 1977. Private  Samuel Davis of Colemans Scouts, became the first to be  posthumously presented the Confederate Medal of Honor. S