It was my understanding as well that after the Civil War and some of the Indian wars that they rearranged the value of what the Medal of Honor was. As I understand it it takes a lot more from an individual service man to get a Medal of Honor than it did back in those days.
Pretty sure I read some citations once for several MOHs awarded for lifesaving after a boiler explosion on a ship during peacetime. This would have been sometime between the Civil War and 1900ish.
